{"id":2622,"date":"2018-09-18T02:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2018-09-18T02:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:50:24","slug":"burnt-lake-and-east-zigzag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/burnt-lake-and-east-zigzag\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Lake and East Zigzag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, September 9, 2018<\/p>\n

The forecast today was favorable, so Greg and I decided to hike to Burnt Lake and East Zigzag. It took us just two hours to reach Burnt Lake from the trailhead. I was pleasantly surprised to find the lake calm, beautifully reflecting Mt. Hood:<\/p>\n

\"Burnt<\/p>\n

\"Burnt<\/p>\n

After stopping for a lake break we continued on the trail, heading towards East Zigzag. The final push to the top:<\/p>\n

\"East<\/p>\n

This stretch before the summit is actually the best place for views:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

The rocky summit used to have clear 360-degree views back in the lookout days, but the trees have grown up now:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

\"East<\/p>\n

We got a peek at Mt. Adams:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Looking northwest:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Mt. Jefferson:<\/p>\n

\"Mt.<\/p>\n

View to the south:<\/p>\n

\"East<\/p>\n

All that’s left of the lookout that once stood here is a few pieces of melted glass from when they burned it in the 1960s:<\/p>\n

\"024<\/a><\/p>\n

We stopped for photo on the way back down:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Greg got stung by a yellow jacket just as we reached the lake on the way back, so while he tended to his wound I went on litter patrol around the campsites. The sites themselves were surprisingly clean, but there was a heck of a lot of toilet paper in the trees behind the sites. I picked it up (wearing a glove) and bagged it for the hike out. While I was over on that side of the lake I got a photo of East Zigzag above the lake:<\/p>\n

\"Burnt<\/p>\n

A 10-mile day with beautiful weather!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, September 9, 2018 The forecast today was favorable, so Greg and I decided to hike to Burnt Lake and<\/p>\n

Continue readingBurnt Lake and East Zigzag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,168,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622"}],"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=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}