{"id":3583,"date":"2020-11-18T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2020-12-25T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:19:26","slug":"gnarl-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/gnarl-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnarl Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, October 4, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Today we hiked the Timberline Trail to Gnarl Ridge. <!--more-->We started at Cloud Cap and headed south, entering the Mt. Hood Wilderness right away:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50587439296_b4243e1430_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our first peek at the mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50586704083_91620b3db5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50587446206_4dc004ce7a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continuing on:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50587567652_2d01204042_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50587444096_021b4c038e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking north to Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Adams, with some haze:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50604834708_6b1fbd99ec_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After 1.1 miles we passed the junction with the Cooper Spur Trail and continued along the Timberline Trail:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605698887_762c1812be_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605571551_7620907296_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at the Cooper Spur Shelter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605688927_23fc4ac0a3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The landscape here is pretty barren:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605687647_219539b76d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605564376_369a0ddf65_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605683362_8baa40387d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Hood again:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50605569496_a5e02bcdde_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lamberson Butte came into view:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615560122_e81a982cc8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615449091_c01ebcdf78_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking to Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking east to Lookout Mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617619831_936b33d5b4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Looking east\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We reached a nice viewpoint at the top of Gnarl Ridge:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615536361_7fbac92d03_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mt. Hood\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615557852_79fa1b9163_c.jpg\" alt=\"Waterfall\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a rockpile there:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617724382_7ac2899a03_c.jpg\" alt=\"Gnarl Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to go as far as Lamberson Butte, but the trail started losing elevation on its way down Gnarl Ridge, so we turned around and headed back to that viewpoint:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615446711_f6ece3ec1d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mt. Hood\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazy view of Mt. Jefferson:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50616886658_df06c55627_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mt. Jefferson\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heading back this was our parting view of Lamberson Butte:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617622036_6dc841073f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Lamberson Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617620886_e7d8664342_c.jpg\" alt=\"Lamberson Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the way back we could see the haze in Washington had gotten worse:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617723277_39d759f789_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50616877958_04839476c7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617612831_64eb907736_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50617727467_ab26fafd34_c.jpg\" alt=\"Timberline Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 7.25 miles, 2,000&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, October 4, 2020 Today we hiked the Timberline Trail to Gnarl Ridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,168,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}