{"id":4151,"date":"2021-11-27T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2022-02-13T19:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:51:02","slug":"suttle-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/27\/suttle-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Suttle Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, November 12, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Over Veteran&#8217;s Day weekend I stayed in a yurt at the Link Creek Campground at Suttle Lake. On Friday I did the hike around the lake.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was my yurt. No electricity and only a woodstove for heat:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51707048325_a13be40b7e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Yurt\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I set off the down the trail, heading counter-clockwise around the lake:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51716182015_345071905d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715583208_d86b31b67c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715582868_d0b4b8ba6a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715577198_099b4095c3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I passed South Shore Campground, which is all closed up for winter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715322686_a1638cbffc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715322171_e9d47d7621_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This beautiful swan was swimming on the lake:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51714525522_c242074d8b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I reached the far end of the lake I got a view of The Boathouse:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715589668_b86a4eaacc_c.jpg\" alt=\"The Boathouse at Suttle Lodge\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715598838_4f8c6eb761_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crossing the bridge over Lake Creek:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715313811_f8e1d49aff_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715995819_19eaeb9ddb_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I stopped to check out Suttle Lodge:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715316486_fe65712c68_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lodge\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715580328_0b6dd6376e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lodge\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then continued on toward the day use area where I started heading back down the length on the north shore:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715581843_c7b8f4fb13_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got a view of Black Butte:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715597143_ce99566286_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the far end I crossed a footbridge over Link Creek and then I was back in my campground:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51715589313_7cf53433f1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51716201335_6f5a64e9d3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from the footbridge:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51716201730_afd912488d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Suttle Lake Loop Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a pleasant walk, but far from quiet. The noise from Highway 20 is non-stop and there are no quiet parts on this hike. In summer when you have noise from boats and jetskis it is probably an even louder hike.<\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 4 miles, 50&#8242;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, November 12, 2021 Over Veteran&#8217;s Day weekend I stayed in a yurt at the Link Creek Campground at Suttle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/27\/suttle-lake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suttle Lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[183,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151"}],"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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}