{"id":255,"date":"2024-12-06T00:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:09:23","slug":"around-pisgah-in-and-above-the-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Around Pisgah in and above the fog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Weather looked like it was going to break … sort of. Not as cold in the southern valley but further north could be freezing. I looked to maximize time outdoors with greatest probability of sun breaks but really wanted hills. Marys Peak might have freezing fog; Hardesty had snow before summit; Goodman Creek has a creek crossing problem; and North Fork \/ Middle Fork wouldn’t take in the sun (and along a road) … Pisgah<\/a> was the best choice, and it worked brilliantly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Started at 7:00 from West TH, and then just tried to walk on every trail and pass by all 3 trail heads: West, East and North. A couple of trails were walked more than 1x as I chose to take the less-human traffic, more interesting routes – and avoid the trails under the crackling high tension wires. The fog helped with the near-by city noise and the structures in landscape – almost like Avalon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recorded Track<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trail conditions were nigh perfect all around. The mud and trail creeks from last week<\/a> were mostly gone. Around the northwest side of the hill fog had frozen on ground and trees – not slippery, but beautiful. Temperatures were also perfectly layered by temperature due to lack of wind – colder at valley floor in the fog and warmer above the fog. Humana traffic was almost none until the sun came out and even then near trailheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These ice patches were on Trail #1 going to summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is construction going on at the park by BPA so noise ….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In and out of the fog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the start of the hike, the sun colored the clouds and I thought the day would be grand after the recent freezing fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting up near the summit, the fog was quite different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n