{"id":4057,"date":"2021-09-30T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:12:33","slug":"sunrise-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/30\/sunrise-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, September 6, 2021<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before driving home today we did one last hike. We broke camp and drove up to Hurricane Ridge where we found that the clouds we&#8217;d been seeing all weekend had finally dissipated and it was a gorgeous sunny day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494861244_5a2f7ac380_c.jpg\" alt=\"View from Hurricane Ridge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hit the trail, heading up to Sunrise Point:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51493352792_0d597ec040_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494863824_a386a4bd7f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51495079345_69b0313740_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We passed some deer up at the point. They seemed pretty unconcerned with all the people around:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494161701_72ea270102_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494866589_e759604202_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494164266_9d45abf089_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494163356_276b47f7df_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494383853_0e1353e90f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view from Sunrise Point is somewhat obstructed by trees, but still pretty nice:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51493362357_07b022620c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Hurricane Hill, which we <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/31\/hurricane-hill\/\">hiked back in early August<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51494381123_c7b13edf70_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We continued past Sunrise Point, following the trail north:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500678775_0d61ee0de3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw the deer again on the slope below us:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500464234_6bfdb9b99d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Deer\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51499973278_fa98802e9f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Deer\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And an Olympic Marmot:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500676370_8f4fc7a34b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Marmot\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51498960867_40d5b39782_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500470179_5e14595efa_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everything is pretty brown now at this point, but it was probably really lovely up here in July with wildflowers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500682925_0616e7e293_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our turnaround point was just ahead in the trees below, where a climber&#8217;s trail heads up to Mt. Angeles:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51498957882_8d0f92d74a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heading back:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51499751346_322b2987ec_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We found a nice spot just off the trail to sit and enjoy the view of the mountains. We saw many many hikers passing by. The temperature was perfect and it was really pleasant sitting here:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500963595_f47f2b8cc0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500260558_c7eabf57a1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500747094_189399774d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was hard to tear ourselves away and head back, but we finally packed up and continued back to the car:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500271193_896e6f83ba_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right near the parking lot we saw a marmot by the trail, a crowd of people circled around taking photos:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51500972475_108e9bbe76_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Ridge Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 4.5 miles, 750 feet elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, September 6, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympic-national-park","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","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=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}