{"id":1875,"date":"2011-06-05T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2012-11-10T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:43:54","slug":"slll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"Church Mountain Hike, June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Church Mountain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> June 4, 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong> 7 out of 10<br \/>\n<strong>Distance:<\/strong> 8.5 miles roundtrip<br \/>\n<strong>Elevation Gain:<\/strong> 3,750 feet<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 4 to 5 hours<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Near Glacier, Washington<br \/>\n<strong>Users Group:<\/strong> Hikers &amp; Dogs Only<br \/>\n<strong>Permits:<\/strong> No Permits Required<br \/>\n<strong>Trail Conditions:<\/strong> Dry to Packed Snow<br \/>\n<strong>Hiking With:<\/strong> Linna Freeman &amp; my dog Macho<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style 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height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN11451.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN11451.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN11451.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN11451.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-attachment-id=\"1908\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=1908\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN11451.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E3500&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1096197908&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;16.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0016361256544503&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Looking South to the beautiful Mt. Baker\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mt. Baker&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN11451.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1908'>\n\t\t\t\tMt. Baker\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nMy wife Linna and I spent the weekend in Glacier, Washington&#8230;.the last town on highway 542; the highway ends at the Mt. Baker Ski Resort.  We decided to hike up Church Mountain on a beautiful Saturday morning, it was close to Glacier and close to where we were staying.  We had to drive 2 1\/2 miles on Forest Road 3040 to reach the trailhead.  Looks like they just installed a new bathroom this year, which means this trail gets busy, but&#8230;even though it was a warm sunny weekend, we were the only ones there.  If this trail was near Seattle, it would have been packed.<\/p>\n<p>As we got started, there were posted bear warnings&#8230;.hmmm, at this moment I was thinking it would have been nice to have my .45 Kimber on me.  The trails starts off on a 1\/2 mile gradual grade on a nice wide trail enough to fit 3 or 4 people wide.  Soon after that 1\/2 mile the trail narrows and it gets much steeper.  Even though it was steep, the trail is quite nice to hike on&#8230;.no rocks or tree roots to worry about.  <\/p>\n<p>The higher we got the older the trees were, it was very sunny so I appreciated the old growth canopy to protect my old skin.  Every once in awhile you could see the North Fork Nooksack River&#8230;.which was roaring with the June snowmelt.  Most of the trail is on the Southern slope, which is why there wasn&#8217;t any snow; as soon as we traversed around the mountain heading North&#8230;we hit snow and a lot of it.  We lost the trail and we decided to head up the mountain making our own tracks.  The problem was the deep snow and I left my trail map in the car.  We finally turned around 4,600 feet and called it a day.  We knew we missed the beautiful view that was waiting for us at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Mountain Date: June 4, 2011 Difficulty: 7 out of 10 Distance: 8.5 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 3,750 feet Time: 4 to 5 hours Location: Near Glacier, Washington Users Group: Hikers &amp; Dogs Only Permits: No Permits Required Trail Conditions: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=1875\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[146,147,149,100,148,20],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moderate-hikes","tag-church-mountain","tag-glacier","tag-highway-542","tag-linna-wei","tag-mt-baker","tag-rick-freeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5jXSd-slll","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}