{"id":4091,"date":"2021-10-21T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:56:15","slug":"barlow-butte-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/21\/barlow-butte-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Barlow Butte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, October 3, 2021<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My foot was hurting after yesterday&#8217;s hike but it was too beautiful of a day to not go for a hike. So I chose something short and not far from home and settled on Barlow Butte.<\/p>\n<p>I parked at Barlow Pass and headed downhill on Road 3530, which follows the route of the old Barlow Road:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51574081054_94ec3e8187_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51573635773_2abfbcc699_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I left the road and started down the Barlow Butte Trail, immediately hitting a stretch of many downed trees:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51574770411_281554f743_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Weirdly it looked like the Forest Service had been through and cut the logs, but they had not removed the cut segments off of the trail:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51575006093_3087c04b84_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once I got through that obstacle course I continued on, soon reaching the Mt. Hood Wilderness boundary:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51573959367_52b290c88f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a steep climb up through the trees, and there were more downed trees to deal with. Finally the trail broke out of the trees as it approached the summit:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51575013483_3b60cf12db_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking southeast from here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51573963627_a5f4d3c88a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The summit is a pleasant spot, but has no views, which I knew from a past visit:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51575696650_d765ce00e7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51573966207_1da372ef7d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearby is the old fire lookout site:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51575008758_d1219657b0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last time I was up here I couldn&#8217;t find any evidence of the lookout. This time I found one of the tie-down points in the brush:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51574770801_846dbf22b0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a little ways past that spot you can see Mt. Hood in-between tree branches:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51575695790_3a60042308_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I headed down from the summit then turned and followed the trail along Barlow Ridge. I got a view of Mt. Jefferson:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51576939383_42e48b3b99_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51576699191_a1511539d3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a view of the bald spot of Palmateer Point, where Greg and I hiked <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/11\/palmateer-point-and-twin-lakes\/\">a few weeks ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51576698531_0e1ec0e934_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51577378239_0a69ed8983_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the trail is in the trees it&#8217;s pretty faint. I don&#8217;t think it gets much use:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51577621605_55a244eaa7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I reached a large rock outcropping that was my turnaround point. There&#8217;s a view of Mt. Hood here, although it&#8217;s quickly becoming covered by trees:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51576943573_aee939845e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51576705426_f6cf2f499a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51577627975_c3f2ee4786_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I retraced my steps back along the ridge to an open rocky area where I could sit and soak up the sun. No Mt. Hood view here, but this was the view looking east:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51577626130_f575bb12e1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Barlow Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw no one else on the trail all day!<\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 4.2 miles, 1,380&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, October 3, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,168,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091"}],"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=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}