{"id":3808,"date":"2021-06-06T22:25:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T22:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:33:36","slug":"black-canyon-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/06\/black-canyon-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Canyon Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 28, 2021<\/p>\n<p>For Memorial Day Weekend we headed over to the Ochoco National Forest. <!--more-->We left bright and early Friday morning so we could get a jump on the weekend crowds and find a good campsite, which we did:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51217850636_389a4f36f0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Ochoco campsite\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After we set up camp we drove east to the Boeing Field Trailhead below Wolf Mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51217848606_2e90954b16_c.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing Field\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could see the Wolf Mountain Lookout from there (we <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2011\/07\/22\/wolf-mountain\/\">visited<\/a> it on our 2011 trip here):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220093725_ba0a1aed11_c.jpg\" alt=\"Wolf Mountain Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boeing Field is a big meadow and is named for a B-18 bomber that crashed near here in 1942 (even though it wasn&#8217;t manufactured by Boeing):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218916940_352d28c684_c.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing Field\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were some nice wildflowers to see here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219023636_8e503589c4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218314402_323c834e65_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219789239_32cecdebb3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220096985_563debd39c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hike starts out on the Owl Creek Trail:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218314022_1c214afef1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Entering the wilderness right away:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219025431_c9c799f2b2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness sign\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trail descends through a burn area from a 2008 wildfire:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220100130_67b261a133_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220098265_7de92aa168_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a nice field of wildflowers just off the trail:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219048966_e089b01446_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trail crews haven&#8217;t been here yet and there were several fallen snags we had to negotiate:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220097895_afbaf63016_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We crossed Owl Creek:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219244188_fb388796ae_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 0.6 miles we reached the junction with the Black Canyon Trail and turned left:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219792949_0bc29afa5a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw plenty of false hellebore:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218317672_325ac9b75d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219029151_1b19a07fc5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg trying to photograph Brown&#8217;s Peony:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219245093_7e1218651c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We reached the edge of the burn 0.2 miles past the junction and then had to negotiate this muddy quagmire:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218317142_94f2669b33_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We appreciated the shade of the unburned forest:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219028671_6613fe5e39_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219800989_0833cdb194_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cool fungi growing right on the trail (I believe this may be <em>Gyromitra montana<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219248943_6904275d57_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218321977_37c258a1bc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We crossed Owl Creek again:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219251533_01c61a8f02_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was one area where a bunch of mushrooms were pushing up earth and forest duff, which was pretty cool:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219038181_f0c21fb43e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220107845_59533fe289_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220107460_a00284d4a0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We reached the crossing of Black Canyon Creek at 2.6 miles. We had lost 1,000&#8242; of elevation and it was already late afternoon so we decided to make this our turnaround point:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219257163_ff1e5d4520_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Canyon Wilderness\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We back-tracked to the car and headed towards our campsite. On the way stopped to check out Paulina Butte, following the old disused access road 0.2 miles to the top:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219821439_80d36c3815_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219055271_8657a24597_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was once a 75&#8242; tower here but it&#8217;s long gone:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51230534899_c09f4f0f31_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"449\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The footings are still there:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219054536_67d3d4b6f7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218341562_1f8cb16866_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51218340332_d4cdc01421_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51220123535_79a34b520e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Paulina Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back at our campsite we made dinner and enjoyed the gorgeous summer evening. We discovered one disadvantage of a campsite with a view of Big Summit Prairie, which is private grazing land. We could hear cows mooing down there and they were pretty loud. Better than listening to human-made noise, though!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51219436707_d7afcaa63f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Big Summit Prairie\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hiking and Camping in the Ochocos, Part 1\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3jUQxTJY07g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 28, 2021 For Memorial Day Weekend we headed over to the Ochoco National Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[238,202,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"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=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}