{"id":429,"date":"2025-01-17T02:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2025-01-17T02:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:07:27","slug":"spencer-butte-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Butte Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The night before plans were set to drive to Westfir to hike North Fork of Middle Fork<\/a>; of all the idea hikes, Marys Peak, Silver Falls, and Ridgeline, North Fork was the only one forecasted to have sun without fog. Then morning of the hike while checking weather one last time and finding no changes, I realized that all the hikes were similar wrt traffic, remoteness, conditions, etc … except Westfir required 1.5 car hours – for the same type of experience as Spencer Butte with 30 minutes. A river hike with sun didn’t remove the extra hour hurdle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spencer weather turned out to be warmer and more sun than Tuesday’s Ridgeline hike<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last days of the full moon were barely visible through the fog in the early morning … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… but by the time I reached Spencer summit, the sun was shining. The valley fog remained lower down, but beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Started at Blanton Ridge and then to Spencer Top; down to S. Willamette back to Spencer Top and then down to Fox Hollow and finally back to Spencer Top before heading back to Blanton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n