Cape Lookout and North Trail 1/18

[anna in boots]

How do spell Oregon in January?

B - A - L - M - Y!

The sun was soft and sweet through the Sitkas....

...misty and lovely on the waves.

Three Arch Rocks were as gentle as a watercolor painting....

...and the Cape Lookout State Park spit looked awfully fetching in that see-through negligee of moisture.

Lots of toll bridges (troll bridges?)

Sitka spruce in a mosh pit of sunlight, dancing to the music of "55 Degrees Fahrenheit."

The sun baked the hillsides into crusty golden loaves of bread....

...and felt pretty good on the tootsies, too.

One final neon blast and Little Brown Bats rose out of the shadows to dance me back to the trail head.

anna in boots

[meana39]

I'm soooooo jealous! What a lovely day you had, I so miss the coast!

[AlexanderSupertramp]

Oh wow. Awesome report Anna!

[fettster]

Classic! Every time I've been there has been very memorable. Way to show me what I was missing this weekend.

[cerritulusman]

Once I hit snow I should have just kept on drive'in.

[anna in boots]

I should add that Cape Lookout features three separate trails, North, Lookout, and South, all connecting centrally at the Lookout Trail head parking area. If you do a mix and match with either of the tangents, which both go down to the beach, you've got yourself a little trek, there. I intended to do all three but ran out of day. By the time I saw the parking lot again, the stars were so intense they almost cast shadows. An owl scared the bejiggers out of me, flying straight across my headlights.

North Trail
2.3 miles
800 ft gain

Lookout Trail
2.4 miles
400 ft gain

South Trail
1.8 miles
800 ft gain

anna in boots

[Splintercat]

Nice spruce mosh photo, Boots - sorta takes me back to the 'shire..!

-Lord of the Dings