{"id":4700,"date":"2023-06-05T20:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2023-06-06T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:21:31","slug":"green-springs-mountain-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/05\/green-springs-mountain-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Springs Mountain Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, May 29, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Before driving home from Ashland on Memorial Day we did the short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonhikers.org\/field_guide\/Green_Springs_Mountain_Loop_Hike\">Green Springs Mountain loop hike<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The trailhead is a short distance down the road from the trail, so we started off with a bit of road hiking:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952811854_ca1b8eb1e8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We turned onto the trail and immediately started seeing flowers. These are Henderson&#8217;s fawn lily:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952848789_6c6de692a9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953055360_4041d397ab_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hound&#8217;s tongue:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952074717_fcedc0ee89_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quiet walking through the forest:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953096480_ec0e932e16_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953096240_9a346d74fa_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We traversed a large lovely meadow with a view of Pilot Rock:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953055400_a31c449df5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952070902_931a4733db_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952711906_3e8fe4de0c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952111152_c89446b99c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952669956_5ab4b16efe_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could also see Hobart Bluff (left) and Soda Mountain (right):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952847874_55b75cde55_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Ashland:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953052475_46033d084f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More wildflowers including lomatium:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952687146_244968d6bc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Delphinium:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953069260_503a841314_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952107122_bf3b4c40ff_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back into the forest:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952109857_41b7f3be93_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More fawn lily:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952086347_ecd4d4cbbd_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the only patch of mud we encountered the whole hike:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952846604_d76cc84c5c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We traversed another meadow:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953137333_e853090333_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another view of Mt. Ashland:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952086152_a24d92b1ca_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw brown&#8217;s peony blooming here. It doesn&#8217;t look like much from above because the flowers point down (making it hard to photograph!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953160033_723cd1f59f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952843954_eff10a0674_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heading back into the trees:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952084387_9880a90f80_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952687126_e80ea88507_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Serviceberry:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952842519_1b186cb7af_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jacob&#8217;s ladder:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52952104372_e8904ba9b4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One last meadow:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52953156393_e6995f950b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Green Springs Mountain Loop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a delightful hike this turned out to be! Quite a gem.<\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 3 miles, 320&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, May 29, 2023 Before driving home from Ashland on Memorial Day we did the short Green Springs Mountain loop<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/05\/green-springs-mountain-loop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green Springs Mountain Loop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700"}],"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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}