{"id":2886,"date":"2019-07-02T21:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2019-07-10T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:29:37","slug":"coffin-mountain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/coffin-mountain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffin Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 23, 2019<\/p>\n<p>After our hike up <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/bachelor-mountain\/\">Bachelor Mountain<\/a>, we headed over to Coffin Mountain for the short 1.5 mile hike to its summit. The flowers started off pretty much immediately:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48152847506_1f103b1166_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170532211_7301ae2b74_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170522861_0895e89f65_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170521476_7755c84c5d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170520306_ffd36fd0f0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the trail entered the forest we started seeing lots of beargrass:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170606677_87a8fc1ecc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170605507_d96849d313_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170528411_592ceba774_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of the trees and still more beargrass:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170524036_1313045a1c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170526106_6b1f0ee8b3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we emerged into the huge summit meadow. This year it was full of beargrass:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170639417_d6a63e2de4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48170638537_90394e60a7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181133836_1f87042313_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181193607_ac053af8c2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181199202_230d0ac0fe_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181196202_69d889ab81_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181195217_e6d1c7628d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181194302_0ee3f9154e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We traversed the summit and switchbacked up it, then into the trees and out the other side to our first view of the fire lookout, which was not yet staffed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181224497_abc26cff5e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We made it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181238231_0a2443486f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We sat on the deck and enjoyed the view of Mt. Jefferson:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181305022_f65cf29895_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181299912_e098831afb_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the Three Sisters:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181234531_0539136d31_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking to the other end of Coffin Mountain where the radio tower is:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181236576_df9c97f69b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed some afternoon wine and cheese:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181264496_8045f46ef7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hiking back down through beargrass heaven:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48181265381_129cfee903_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffin Mountain Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Getting here meant a five-hour round-trip drive from Portland, which is not something we normally do for day hikes. But it was completely worth it to see the beargrass, which is one of my favorite wildflowers. Great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 23, 2019 After our hike up Bachelor Mountain, we headed over to Coffin Mountain for the short 1.5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/coffin-mountain-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coffin Mountain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oregon","category-willamette-national-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}