{"id":3771,"date":"2021-05-05T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2021-05-19T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T03:00:09","slug":"clarno-and-painted-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/clarno-and-painted-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarno and Painted Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 31 and Saturday, May 1, 2021<\/p>\n<p>We wanted to visit the Spring Basin Wilderness in central Oregon, which is too far for a day hike, so we spent the weekend camping in the area. While we were here we visited two of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After setting up camp along the John Day River we headed over to the Clarno Unit, which has these cool rock palisades:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51157727550_c392045b79_c.jpg\" alt=\"John Day Fossil Beds\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51157410579_c04af19a42_c.jpg\" alt=\"John Day Fossil Beds\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51156855003_fe0e199bcc_c.jpg\" alt=\"John Day Fossil Beds\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First we hiked the Geologic Time Trail. Signs along the way note events of the last 50 million years. Each foot of trail represents 37,000 years:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51157726425_f5c039098d_c.jpg\" alt=\"John Day Fossil Beds\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we headed up another trail to check out a natural arch cut into the cliff by erosion:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51155954817_038517454a_c.jpg\" alt=\"John Day Fossil Beds\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51156862843_25784f5732_c.jpg\" alt=\"Clarno Arch\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51155962352_b16fd453ae_c.jpg\" alt=\"Clarno Arch\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51156637631_b92dcc04ea_c.jpg\" alt=\"Clarno Arch\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some fellow hikers pointed out this bee honeycomb high up on the cliff face:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51155961707_6ed32035c7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bee honeycombs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51156633351_f5e49dc1aa_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bee honeycombs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Near that spot are some petrified logs, one vertical and one horizontal:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51156627406_c368bafb1a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Petrified Logs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View of the surrounding area:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51155970842_265514c8f0_c.jpg\" alt=\"View from the Clarno Unit\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally we hiked the Trail of Fossils where people can see visible plant fossils from the forest that blanketed this region 44 million years ago:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51157742235_0df4e49c67_c.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf fossils\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51155969952_bcd7521394_c.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf fossils\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51155969552_8a62798898_c.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf fossils\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we had planned to hike in the Spring Basin Wilderness but with the rain we changed our plans and went the Painted Hills instead. We decided to do the Carroll Rim Trail:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51158724632_7792cf2a75_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were some muddy stretches. Clearly the rain we&#8217;d had further north had hit here too:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51159627103_12e783ff32_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51160499040_d4a0bfa078_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51160498545_25f771c379_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view up here is pretty nice!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51159390586_8fd6c82ce7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51159390106_31ab0d41da_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51160502500_6d5bcc8507_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We found SIX discarded banana peels up there. This is why I carry gloves and a plastic bag, to pick up after others:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51160174869_009acb45e3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Picking up after hikers\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After sitting at the viewpoint for awhile we headed back down:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51160512525_fab9ec9dd6_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51158741287_b3157b6458_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51158742017_07fb2b7c2b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Rim Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One last view before heading out:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51159412746_8721bf8a5e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Hills\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my third time to the Painted Hills. It&#8217;s gotten WAY busier since my first visit ten years ago in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 31 and Saturday, May 1, 2021 We wanted to visit the Spring Basin Wilderness in central Oregon, which<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/clarno-and-painted-hills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clarno and Painted Hills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-day-fossil-beds-national-monument","category-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}