{"id":22902,"date":"2025-06-18T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:42:31","slug":"a-mt-pisgah-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=22902","title":{"rendered":"A Mt Pisgah Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After biking last week in Painted Hills<\/a>, I wanted to make sure my legs hadn’t forgotten how to climb hills. A decent weather day (a bit cool) and a half-moon perfect for a sunrise walk up and around Mt. Pisgah<\/a>. When I pulled into the parking lot there were 9 cars at 05:15, and then when I left around 9:30 the lot was nearly full and dogs running around everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Route<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Started from the west trailhead (main lot near arboretum) and went straight up to the top on the main trail (no headlamp needed). After the top, I went down the back side to east trailhead and then back around on trail 4 until the summit path, which I took. Then retraced from the top and headed down trail 4 to trail 3 toward north trailhead, and then turned around and went back over my steps to the top and then back down to car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: trail 3 was temporary closed at east trailhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human traffic was null beyond the main trail until 8:00 and then like ants they were everywhere with their dogs – the number of unleashed dogs and trail-side pooh bags was irrational. Trails are hard and dry – getting too hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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