{"id":1515,"date":"2023-08-26T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2024-07-06T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T02:09:41","slug":"pig-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2023\/08\/26\/pig-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Iron Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Type: 10&#8242; tower<br \/>\nStatus: Staffed<br \/>\nElevation: 4,881&#8242;<br \/>\nVisited: July 15, 2023<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a road that goes to Pig Iron Lookout, but today I visited the lookout by taking the trail that starts on Road 250. (Read about the hike <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/10\/pig-iron-lookout\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53122877459_338314d38a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trail dumped me out on the lookout access road, which I started walking:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53122914329_f9c7069b8c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at the lookout no one was home:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53123078700_a64ef5e0f5_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53122707551_81695064b2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53122905109_e9d7c5eb0f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking west with Twin Lakes Mountain on the left, Toketee Lake and Clearwater Forebay No. 2 down below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53122903359_697823cc23_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking northwest to Illahee Rock, Spring Mountain, and Harding Butte:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53122100457_fc551b1b72_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53123106095_af020554c2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lookout sits at the end of Watson Ridge, a little bit west of the actual summit of Pig Iron Mountain. Therefore no views exist to the east:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53123189958_547a10a29f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Iron Hike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oregonlookouts.weebly.com\/cinnamon-butte.html\">Forest Lookouts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firelookout.com\/or\/pigiron.html\">Rex&#8217;s Forest Fire Lookout Page<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nhlr.org\/lookouts\/us\/or\/cinnamon-butte-lookout\/\">National Historic Lookout Register<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakbagger.com\/peak.aspx?pid=31498\">Peakbagger<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iamwho.com\/cdv2\/westOr\/umpqua\/umpq150\/site.htm\">Panorama Photos<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coord.info\/GC4NE4M\">Geocache<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This 10&#8242; tower with 14&#215;14&#8242; cab was built in 1950 and is staffed by volunteers. Despite the name it is located to the west of Pig Iron Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type: 10&#8242; tower Status: Staffed Elevation: 4,881&#8242; Visited: July 15, 2023 There&#8217;s a road that goes to Pig Iron Lookout,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2023\/08\/26\/pig-iron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pig Iron Mountain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-umpqua-national-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}