{"id":870,"date":"2021-06-15T02:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/?p=870"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:39:40","slug":"east-butte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2021\/06\/15\/east-butte\/","title":{"rendered":"East Butte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Type: 20&#8242; L-4 tower<br \/>\nStatus: Staffed<br \/>\nElevation: 6,400&#8242;<br \/>\nVisited: June 11, 2021<\/p>\n<p>During a camping and hiking weekend in central Oregon I visited several fire lookouts. East Butte is a staffed lookout in the Deschutes National Forest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245614416_e234d06622_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Road 18 I drove Road 1850 for for 1.5 miles and stayed right at a junction. After another 1.2 miles I turned left onto 700, then reached the junction with Road 750 after 0.9 miles. There&#8217;s a gate here so this is where I parked and started walking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245868133_880cc6d577_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51244953317_5b9345c06c_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>East Butte is inside the East Fork Rock OHV Trail System and there is an OHV trail that goes up East Butte, but it&#8217;s closed from June 1 to October 1:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245639086_a6f0e72c28_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Gaia track came out to 1.7 miles of road hiking from gate to summit:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245618591_d132fa689e_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tower was staffed but no one came out. Can&#8217;t say I blame them in this weather!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51244948242_7818f9038b_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51244922742_78facb8258_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51244917912_c5150a230f_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51246684690_e25c6ac6fa_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245856908_1a310cc8af_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245846173_5a350fc21d_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rain was imminent so views were lacking:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51246710025_19d2c6fda7_c.jpg\" alt=\"East Butte\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a fruitless search for the <a href=\"https:\/\/coord.info\/GC1CYBW\">geocache<\/a> I booked it back down the road as the rain started. It rained the whole way back to the gate, and indeed it would end up raining non-stop for the rest of the day!<\/p>\n<p>More information about East Butte:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oregonlookouts.weebly.com\/east-butte.html\">Forest Lookouts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firelookout.com\/or\/eastbutte.html\">Rex&#8217;s Forest Fire Lookout Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type: 20&#8242; L-4 tower Status: Staffed Elevation: 6,400&#8242; Visited: June 11, 2021 During a camping and hiking weekend in central<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2021\/06\/15\/east-butte\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Butte<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","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\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}