{"id":2305,"date":"2018-04-10T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T16:40:51","slug":"first-catherine-creek-visit-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/first-catherine-creek-visit-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"First Catherine Creek Visit of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 17, 2018<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Watch for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doh.wa.gov\/CommunityandEnvironment\/Pests\/Ticks\">ticks<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyeastblog.org\/2012\/05\/28\/10-common-poison-oak-myths\/\">poison oak<\/a>\u00a0if you hike here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greg and I made our first Catherine Creek trek of the year today. It didn&#8217;t rain, but it was partly cloudy and pretty windy! I didn&#8217;t take a ton of photos, but I have a video at the end of this post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/893\/41379515911_56ac68e32b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We started off behind these two women who walked right past the &#8220;dogs must be on leash&#8221; sign with their dog off-leash. We saw them later in the hike and the dog was still off-leash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/813\/40484582905_1b93c0c0fe_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things are starting to green up!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/793\/41379512571_ccce07ba19_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/813\/41379509771_dfb188c89b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once we got up on top with the big sloping meadow we were pummeled by the wind:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/894\/41379506271_c40863a630_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/813\/26509184907_e6330e1ca4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We started getting a little bit more blue sky:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/792\/41379499981_2d053c68dd_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a relief when we picked up the old road and started descending. We were out of the open and now protected from the relentless wind:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/870\/41379495641_7125993d88_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We crossed Catherine Creek then picked up another old road going up past the old corral:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/870\/27509482768_f8ddda237f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We looped around over the top near the arch where we were back in the wind:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/902\/40484555765_6941e52059_c.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Creek Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We dropped down to the road and walked back to the car. Great loop today! Could have done without the wind, but that&#8217;s the Gorge for you. 5 miles, 1400&#8242; elevation gain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/894\/40666141714_b72fcb1427_c.jpg\" alt=\"CatCreek\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hiking the Catherine Creek Loop\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jFzCTs4MW4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 17, 2018 Note: Watch for ticks and\u00a0poison oak\u00a0if you hike here. Greg and I made our first Catherine Creek<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/first-catherine-creek-visit-of-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Catherine Creek Visit of 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,187,161],"tags":[195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}