{"id":4834,"date":"2023-08-01T20:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:32:42","slug":"carpenter-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/01\/carpenter-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 8, 2023<\/p>\n<p>After my hike up <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/20\/sand-mountain\/\">Sand Mountain<\/a> this morning I headed over to do the short hike up Carpenter Mountain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There was a great view of the Three Sisters from the trailhead:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089255093_edf6142fe2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Signage at the trailhead about appropriate visiting hours:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090539540_69644d1a29_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090315024_6f8f66c0ff_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I headed up the trail, passing some nice beargrass in bloom:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53088948624_38c9c62ae3_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Columbine:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53088948494_04882dac93_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Owl clover:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53088789111_4d9e50b023_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traversing a big meadow:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089566417_8afc85562e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090314639_40e349c8b8_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carpenter Mountain is in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, so you&#8217;ll see signs like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53088789206_76ac889c8f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another sign about visiting hours:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090539060_33caa83f17_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I reached the lookout and met Rob, who has been working this lookout since 2014. He remembered meeting a woman back in the day who said she was visiting every lookout in the state. &#8220;That was me!&#8221; I said. I was up here that summer of 2014. His first day up here this season was June 20 when we had that crazy cold snap. Up here it was cold and snowy. Fortunately today was clear and beautiful:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089194925_3e613bc7db_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090303464_619c0b8f4e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089554387_66cc26e99b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to photograph this one because there isn&#8217;t much room on the summit:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090314514_e1b42b76fb_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The views were great. Looking north with Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson on the right:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090613058_b8107fbb19_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Jefferson and Three Fingered Jack:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089556182_f102bd23b2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Washington:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090527895_ebeb165be4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking south to Diamond Peak:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090305224_b4cd078c43_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 8, 2023 After my hike up Sand Mountain this morning I headed over to do the short hike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/01\/carpenter-mountain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carpenter Mountain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-willamette-national-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","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=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}