{"id":4693,"date":"2023-06-04T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2023-06-06T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:33:13","slug":"hobart-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/04\/hobart-bluff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 28, 2023<\/p>\n<p>After our <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/soda-mountain-2\/\">hike to Soda Mountain<\/a> we hiked the PCT in the other direction, heading northbound to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonhikers.org\/field_guide\/Hobart_Bluff_Hike\">Hobart Bluff<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945697075_ced6debd2e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Henderson&#8217;s fawn lily:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946586911_95be4bfe28_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945771818_bb4e4c7e5d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had encountered blowdown on the PCT heading to Soda Mountain and there was blowdown on this section too:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945992327_a53e0f8d20_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945696060_c4991450b1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We turned off the PCT and headed up the hill to Hobart Bluff:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946732464_67707a6568_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View of Soda Mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52944710352_2d7da8a864_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of this mahala mat in bloom:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52944710357_ebf9900fa8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we crossed an open meadow area with a lot of balsamroot:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946976610_a34c3969ab_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945450759_b638370937_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52944771207_d85e345243_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945830858_e56549da04_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phlox:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52945830823_ce5ea94c26_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946585536_7c91ab3325_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost to the summit:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52944770892_da59812d9f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The summit is a broad rocky area with a lot of room to spread out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946732014_915289828d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The clouds were increasing and obscuring some of our views:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946586166_0d547261bc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But we could still see Pilot Rock:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52947052638_cc7bd37383_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52946731954_62c7a343b4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hobart Bluff Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Mt. 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Very pleasant early summer hike!<\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 2.4 miles, 330&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 28, 2023 After our hike to Soda Mountain we hiked the PCT in the other direction, heading northbound<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/04\/hobart-bluff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hobart Bluff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693"}],"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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}