Couldn’t have asked for a nicer day to go up Saddleback for Tom’s 29th high peak! We made such good time that we paid an extra visit to Gothics via the cable route just for the fun of it. Fall colors are certainly coming in!

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Two people smiling stand on a mountaintop wearing casual outdoor clothing under a clear blue sky surrounded by forested hills in the background. Two people with backpacks smile in a forest parking area with cars parked nearby and a small wooden building visible in the background. A deer grazes quietly amidst dense green foliage in a forest setting, surrounded by tall trees and scattered fallen leaves. Sunlit meadow sits quietly bordered by dense forest under a clear blue sky with sunlight streaming through the trees. Two hikers smile on a trail in a forested area with a wooden cabin in the background. The hiker in front wears a blue shirt with a mounted device displaying 8:39. Tall evergreen trees standing silently in a dense forest surrounding a small stream cascading down a gentle hill under a clear blue sky. A lush green mountainside with a rocky outcrop is surrounded by dense forest. A dry tree stands in the foreground under a clear blue sky. A person wearing a yellow cap and carrying a backpack holds trekking poles while standing on a rocky forest trail surrounded by tall trees. A person hikes with poles on a rocky slope wearing a backpack under a clear blue sky surrounded by dense forest with green trees and distant mountains in the background. Two hikers walk along a narrow wooden bridge in a forest. One smiles at the camera, wearing a blue shirt and cap, while the other follows in orange. Dense green foliage surrounds them. Trail signs attached to a tree direct hikers to Gothics Mt Armstrong Mt and Saddleback Mt surrounded by a dense forest You are entering an Arctic Alpine Plant Zone Mountains covered in dense green forest slope downward under a clear blue sky with distant ridges and valleys stretching into the horizon on a sunny day. A person is smiling while standing on a rocky mountain ledge. They wear a yellow cap and backpack. In the background, expansive forested mountains stretch under a clear blue sky. ![A person holding a white sign stands smiling on a rocky mountain summit with tree-covered hills in the distance under a clear blue sky.

Text on the sign: “Saddleback Mtn Elevation 4515' #29/46”.](https://jb.heydingus.net/uploads/2025/18059569631123103.jpg)