{"id":5480,"date":"2017-07-04T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2017-07-08T19:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T03:17:21","slug":"5480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=5480","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion Mountain Hike, July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scorpion Mountain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> July 4, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong> 6 out of 10<br \/>\n<strong>Distance:<\/strong> 8 miles \/ 12.9 Kilometers round-trip<br \/>\n<strong>Elevation Gain:<\/strong> 2,650 feet \/ 808 meters<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 5 to 6 hours<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Near Skykomish, Washington<br \/>\n<strong>Users Group:<\/strong> Hikers &amp; Dogs Only<br \/>\n<strong>Permits:<\/strong> Northwest Forest Pass Required<br \/>\n<strong>Trail Conditions:<\/strong> Dry to a few snow patches on summit<br \/>\n<strong>Hiking With:<\/strong> Linna Freeman, Rick Freeman, Matt Kerby, Craig Schilling, Tao Song &amp; Macho<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=5480&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5480 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5598'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Matt Kerby&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-6300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1499161443&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;KerbyCo MKTG&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Valley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Valley Of Lillies&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Valley.jpg?fit=584%2C212&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5600'>\n\t\t\t\tValley Of Lillies\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5601'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-man-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-man-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-man-1.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-man-1.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-attachment-id=\"5601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5601\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-man-1.jpg?fit=3998%2C2738&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3998,2738\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Matt Kerby&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-6300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1499161187&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;KerbyCo MKTG&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The man\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Freeman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-man-1.jpg?fit=584%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5601'>\n\t\t\t\tFreeman\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5504'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Group.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Group.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Group.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Group.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-attachment-id=\"5504\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5504\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Group.jpg?fit=4898%2C3266&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4898,3266\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Matt Kerby&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-6300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1499159157&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;KerbyCo MKTG&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;34&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Group\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Standing on top of the last bit of snow on the Scorpion summit.  Matt Kerby, Rick Freeman, Linna Freeman, Craig Schilling and Tao Song&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Group&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Group.jpg?fit=584%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5504'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Group\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5502'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mt.-Stuart.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mt.-Stuart.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mt.-Stuart.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mt.-Stuart.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-attachment-id=\"5502\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5502\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mt.-Stuart.jpg?fit=4387%2C2769&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4387,2769\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Matt Kerby&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-6300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1499158955&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;KerbyCo MKTG&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mt. Stuart\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Beautiful Mt. Stuart&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mt.-Stuart.jpg?fit=584%2C368&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5502'>\n\t\t\t\tBeautiful Mt. 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data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Scorpion Mountain Location&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Scorpion-Location.jpg?fit=584%2C409&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5483'>\n\t\t\t\tScorpion Mountain Location\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=5602'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Altitude-Graph.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Altitude-Graph.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, 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\/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nFor our July 4th celebration we started our day hiking a new trail off of highway 2 near Skykomish, Washington. I usually hike the I-90 hikes out of Seattle, but when I invite my wife I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pre-requisite to come up with a new hike to entice her to come out.  Scorpion Mountain was a new hike for us and we were blessed with a sunny warm July 4th without the crowd. We invited our good friends Matt Kerby, Craig Schilling and Tao Song to share this quiet beautiful hike.<\/p>\n<p>This is not your typical off the exit I-90 hike, it takes some driving time and effort.  After getting off of highway 2, you have 7 miles of a narrow paved road onto a narrower overgrown dirt-road for another 6 miles up the mountain. We only had two groups ahead of us when we started, but managed to pass them to have full access to the summit to ourselves.  This hike has a gain of 2,500 feet, but after reaching the Sunrise Mountain you descend over 200 feet to only ascend again to summit Scorpion&#8230;making this trek a bit more difficult. <\/p>\n<p>Before reaching the summit of glacier lilies and a couple of large mounds of snow you get to hike through a mature forest and alpine meadows.  You have a 360 view on top with Glacier Peak, Spire, El Capitan and the top of Rainier showing.<\/p>\n<p>Linna and I ended our hike with some delicious Korean BBQ at Blue Ginger in Bellevue, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scorpion Mountain Date: July 4, 2017 Difficulty: 6 out of 10 Distance: 8 miles \/ 12.9 Kilometers round-trip Elevation Gain: 2,650 feet \/ 808 meters Time: 5 to 6 hours Location: Near Skykomish, Washington Users Group: Hikers &amp; Dogs Only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=5480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[677,680,30,641,642,20,667,679,525,219],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moderate-hikes","tag-craig-schilling","tag-johnson-ridge","tag-linna-freeman","tag-matt-kerby","tag-matt-kerby-bellevue","tag-rick-freeman","tag-rick-freeman-wander-junkie","tag-scorpion-mountain","tag-tao-song","tag-wander-junkie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5jXSd-5480","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","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=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}