{"id":37787,"date":"2025-10-09T23:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=37787"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:31:48","slug":"falls-first-touch-pisgah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=37787","title":{"rendered":"Fall’s First Touch @ Pisgah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A late morning start at Mt Pisgah under grey skies, leaving the North TH around 11:30. Rain was threatened, but weather peeps said after dinner. I had no objective other than spend time on the hill as far away from other humans as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall has landed in Willamette Valley and summer’s last holds are leaving or have gone … even the vultures were missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even the flowers were different and of course fungi surfacing too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Started at North TH and went left around on Trail 3, then up to the summit and then back down to Trail 4 to East TH. From there, I just kept to the left starting on the New Trail 3 and ended up near a river fork and areas not seen before. I then climbed up the hill on some terrible trail with tall rock steps on a too steep hill. From the top, back down the summit trail to Trail 3 and to car.<\/p>\n\n\n