{"id":2205,"date":"2017-10-12T20:05:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2017-10-22T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T17:15:16","slug":"lewis-river-waterfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/lewis-river-waterfalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis River Waterfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday we headed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonhikers.org\/field_guide\/Lewis_River_Waterfall_Hike\">Lewis River<\/a> hoping to see some nice fall color. We were WAY too early, though (by 2-3 weeks, I&#8217;d guess) and it was still pretty green. It was still a lovely hike, though. Shockingly enough I have never done this trail, despite a decade of hiking around here!<\/p>\n<p>A quick note about access. It seems that guidebooks direct everyone to drive up I5 then head east through Woodland on 503. That&#8217;s the way we went, but we came back by heading south on Road 30 then down to Carson. That route is much prettier. Both routes are equally curvy. Bring the dramamine!<\/p>\n<p>We started off at the Lower Falls then headed upstream.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4479\/37608479201_0e1544d226_c.jpg\" alt=\"37608479201_0e1544d226_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4460\/37349617450_1c14c866ca_c.jpg\" alt=\"37349617450_1c14c866ca_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4463\/37608471721_7830f491e8_c.jpg\" alt=\"37608471721_7830f491e8_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4491\/37349613250_b4f90e445a_c.jpg\" alt=\"37349613250_b4f90e445a_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4446\/37608466891_c2f84e051b_c.jpg\" alt=\"37608466891_c2f84e051b_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4500\/36892339783_d239c5176a_c.jpg\" alt=\"36892339783_d239c5176a_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4492\/36892336993_264416e451_c.jpg\" alt=\"36892336993_264416e451_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4448\/23755407658_90a79e2460_c.jpg\" alt=\"23755407658_90a79e2460_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4449\/36937861863_c8fd4c0594_c.jpg\" alt=\"36937861863_c8fd4c0594_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently there&#8217;s a landslide past this point, so the trail detours up to the Middle Falls Trailhead. Instead of a clear sign explaining this, the Forest Service has opted for a mess of pink flagging. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4503\/36937858113_d01c6babcb_c.jpg\" alt=\"36937858113_d01c6babcb_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what it looks like at the other end on the lower bridge over Copper Creek:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4485\/37608525771_d6014b87e7_c.jpg\" alt=\"37608525771_d6014b87e7_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4448\/37559468436_d617acecbf_c.jpg\" alt=\"37559468436_d617acecbf_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copper Creek Falls:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4497\/36937854263_cf1c03b61d_c.jpg\" alt=\"36937854263_cf1c03b61d_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4514\/37608455031_ec8d112084_c.jpg\" alt=\"37608455031_ec8d112084_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Middle Falls:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4471\/36897920454_9b60c00041_c.jpg\" alt=\"36897920454_9b60c00041_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4453\/37616726711_82d8fc8c2a_c.jpg\" alt=\"37616726711_82d8fc8c2a_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4476\/37559465836_348af413cb_c.jpg\" alt=\"37559465836_348af413cb_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trail has slumped away near Middle Falls and is quite a mess. I don&#8217;t know when this happened, but it doesn&#8217;t look recent:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4495\/37559458326_b6040da652_c.jpg\" alt=\"37559458326_b6040da652_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upper Falls:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4503\/37616730751_66f99e7564_c.jpg\" alt=\"37616730751_66f99e7564_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4482\/37584012442_0a678f8fe1_c.jpg\" alt=\"37584012442_0a678f8fe1_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4480\/37357681410_d3c2c8978e_c.jpg\" alt=\"37357681410_d3c2c8978e_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t go any further than Upper Falls because it was starting to rain. So we turned and headed back for the car. Lovely trail! Can&#8217;t believe it took me this long to hike it.<\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBOv1fR78TY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday we headed to the Lewis River hoping to see some nice fall color. We were WAY too early,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/lewis-river-waterfalls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lewis River Waterfalls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[187,161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}