{"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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090539540_69644d1a29_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089566417_8afc85562e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53089194925_3e613bc7db_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53090303464_619c0b8f4e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter Mountain Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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":[],"categories":[158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834"}],"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}]}}