{"id":1308,"date":"2023-07-07T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2023-07-07T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:07:55","slug":"return-to-black-butte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2023\/07\/07\/return-to-black-butte\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Black Butte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Type: D-6 cupola (1923) and 35&#8242; tower (1995)<br \/>\nStatus: Cupola is abandoned; Tower is staffed<br \/>\nElevation: 6,436 feet<br \/>\nVisited: June 4, 2023<\/p>\n<p>After visiting Green Ridge yesterday, I camped in the area and got a very early start to hike up Black Butte. I haven&#8217;t done this hike since my <a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2016\/07\/22\/black-butte-2\/\">last visit in 2016<\/a>. (You can read about the hike itself <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/12\/black-butte\/\">on my adventure blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The tower is staffed in summer, but I couldn&#8217;t tell if anyone was up there this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960329098_7abdfa006c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960022159_0e56e8a386_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960313810_b29a29234e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52961407317_79dde6f833_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s new signage since my last visit:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960260345_a3433cb1dc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2019 Friends of the Metolius did some <a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2019\/10\/02\/black-butte-cupola-being-restored\/\">restoration work<\/a> on the old 1923 cupola lookout, so it&#8217;s looking pretty good:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960033174_f7e37e4672_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52962387360_4858a0f386_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960341348_f454b29d37_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The old condemned cabin on the summit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deschutesnationalforest\/photos\/a.311217075726032\/641955832652153\">burned down by the Forest Service<\/a> just a few months after my 2016 visit, and in its place is a nice viewing platform was built:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52959925741_d10b72f72d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52959890231_60087b1133_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52962008721_93405c7fd7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a bit of evidence of the old cabin:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52962460988_8142652c60_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52962385475_3102019993_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Views are great from the platform. Broken Top:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960074574_3cbf0a2b43_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three Sisters:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52959930356_fa25437fce_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Crater:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960073039_5a167dd34b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Belknap Crater and Mt. Washington:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960382653_5679242efc_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three Fingered Jack:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52959333787_5e9295b71a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Jefferson:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52960316245_513608f42d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Hood:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52959333952_909126698d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old toilet up here, but I didn&#8217;t use it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52962151474_a726f0e389_c.jpg\" alt=\"Black Butte Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type: D-6 cupola (1923) and 35&#8242; tower (1995) Status: Cupola is abandoned; Tower is staffed Elevation: 6,436 feet Visited: June<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2023\/07\/07\/return-to-black-butte\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return to Black Butte<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deschutes-national-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}