{"id":5215,"date":"2024-06-23T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:38:06","slug":"divide-trail-and-flag-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/divide-trail-and-flag-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Divide Trail and Flag Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 23, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Today I hiked part of the Divide Trail in the Badger Creek Wilderness and afterwards I drove to the Flag Point Lookout.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was 48 degrees when I arrived at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonhikers.org\/field_guide\/Sunset_Spring_Trailhead\">trailhead on Road 200<\/a> at 7:15am. (Road 200 is quite rough and is not suitable for low-clearance cars.) Not surprisingly there were no other cars around. I set off northwest on the Divide Trail. Although there was some blowdown to deal with, the trail was in pretty good shape:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826628824_b1f450a9f2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw a few wildflowers along the way:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826187691_bc4ee2609e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826448253_6575c0fe36_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Hood peeking out from behind Lookout Mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826625360_9e511fa2b9_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I reached a nice viewpoint that is not labeled on maps but which is often called Palisade Point:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53825291052_9ffe4b89d4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View of the Three Sisters and Mt. Jefferson:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53825307582_fbedff29b6_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View of Flag Point:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826550884_4a59553981_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plenty of stonecrop can be seen growing in and amongst the rocks:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826738140_60d801b1fa_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826542278_f1469fa631_b.jpg\" alt=\"Divide Trail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back at my car after that three-mile hike, I drove up Road 200 to visit the Flag Point Lookout. The gate that is 0.3 miles before the tower was open and the lookout on duty must have been on a grocery run or something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826757300_5c40ee2a10_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826384866_9c69f52752_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point Lookout\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were some clouds swirling around:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826630494_9aa1e4e332_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But views of the Oregon Cascades were still visible:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53825467322_c6c5c73c4f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826386806_731c98660f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking east to the dry side. Already brown and dry even though it&#8217;s not even July yet:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826542873_31523d2321_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an unmarked trail by the toilet that heads west:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826719644_92956a5b91_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I followed it 0.2 miles out to a wide open area with very nice views:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826721454_e977d86859_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Broken Top and the Three Sisters:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53825477857_586fa417d3_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Jefferson and Olallie Butte:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826830300_2513d58b99_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Hood and Lookout Mountain:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53826831305_1f38de78f8_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking out over the Badger Creek Wilderness (Badger Creek is down in that canyon below):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53825479017_253618673d_b.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Point\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 23, 2024 Today I hiked part of the Divide Trail in the Badger Creek Wilderness and afterwards I<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/divide-trail-and-flag-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Divide Trail and Flag Point<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167,166,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215"}],"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=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}