{"id":4097,"date":"2021-10-25T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2021-11-11T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:28:36","slug":"dog-river-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/25\/dog-river-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog River Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 9, 2021<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today we set out to hike Chinidere Mountain, but when we reached Hood River we could see that it was quite cloudy and we probably wouldn&#8217;t get any views up there. So we shifted gears and instead headed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonhikers.org\/field_guide\/Dog_River_Traverse_Hike\">Dog River Trail<\/a>, whose trailhead is right on Highway 25.<\/p>\n<p>We passed Puppy Creek right at the start:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51576717391_6e8ecc3855_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the trail starts climbing gradually uphill:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51579314716_a475604970_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51579542843_509313b639_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fall color got better and better as we hiked along:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51578495457_763f761a65_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51580225750_224ce58d76_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51579310896_ecbc294542_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51580223535_9caf9d6e03_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51578491452_79115370a1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51580019629_1cdc63857d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51580021819_d0568154e2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51581917595_af1da9d5e8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After two miles the trail crossed the Dog River on a footbridge:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51581235033_8e3355f098_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51581002576_cf8f6d0dc5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51581001661_7cfbcbf4b2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continuing on past more fall color:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51581232148_53d9700bbd_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 3.3 miles we reached a very nice trailside viewpoint with a great view of Mt. Hood:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51603022043_01b14ddf93_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51587494825_1002094d68_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mt. Hood view\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51603454609_920d1f77fd_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our hiking guidebook mentioned a viewpoint at a trail junction a little further on, but the view there was mostly blocked by trees:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51603453814_b7f2a73d37_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So we went back to the first\/better viewpoint and took a break there. The clouds came and went, and so did the views. We weren&#8217;t getting enough sunshine on us so we got cold, even in our down jackets. Time to pack up and head back down:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51601993162_a936bc90f2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51602824696_24dffbb320_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dog River Trail\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Considering this hadn&#8217;t been our original plan it turned out very well. Great fall colors AND a view! We only saw a few other hikers. This trail is primarily used by mountain bikers and we saw a few, but not many.<\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 7.3 miles, 1,560&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 9, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097"}],"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=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}