{"id":4966,"date":"2023-09-22T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2024-03-18T01:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:16:06","slug":"silver-forest-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/22\/silver-forest-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Forest Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 29, 2023<\/p>\n<p>We were quite tired today after yesterday&#8217;s long Burroughs Mountain hike, so we did something very easy low-key: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wta.org\/go-hiking\/hikes\/silver-forest-emmons-vista\">Silver Forest Trail<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Clouds swirled around Mt. Rainier as we set off:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237531617_f278bce9b2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a little viewpoint with a huge signboard that no longer contained a sign:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238743223_07624db0e0_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237531627_460c1c9384_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We continued on, passing wildflowers along the way:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237575472_f74cbe1f3e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238400486_1482c28bc6_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237581072_b87596f049_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238935910_0ab4db3d94_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237575552_08f609fee1_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238930570_1a2f715b02_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238818649_e07985b41c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at Mt. Rainier:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238747303_15775a11e9_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238818154_56360254d4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238812309_61e96bd39b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We reached the end of the maintained trail, but kept following the user trail beyond it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238930320_6f5b850260_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238741833_d994733644_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238741443_3ae109bc91_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238747623_7e99db2e3d_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We found a shady spot to sit and enjoy the view for awhile. Nearby two golden-mantled ground squirrels assessed whether we were an easy mark:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238745418_c1f8aa5161_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238741163_ec6e583828_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I explored the trail a little bit further. It kept going into some trees and I turned around:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237578032_27a4259f34_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238815889_a22702c2d2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clouds rolled in and covered the mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53238811129_a112d2cc82_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a long sit we headed back:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53237578177_a5de808988_b.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Forest Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 2.6 miles, 120&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 29, 2023 We were quite tired today after yesterday&#8217;s long Burroughs Mountain hike, so we did something very<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/22\/silver-forest-trail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silver Forest Trail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233,161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966"}],"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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}