. I guess when you’re already trespassing, taking a pee/poop on the living room floor and decorating the furniture with tissue paper is acceptable? (NOT! 
). Anyway, SummitPost has accurate directions to the TH (arrow), which is cunningly disguised as a road.
Once I found it, the trail just got better and better as it climbed higher through the forest. Finally the trees parted to offer a view of Hood to the N.
When I got to the top, there was another view of Hood, looking past the old lookout structure. The lookout was abandoned in 1967 and was, at least in 1969, the last remaining example of a cupola-type lookout cabin in Oregon. Since then it’s fallen very heavily on hard times.
To the E, I could see several of the large fires that are ravaging the Warm Springs Reservation.
The fire line seemed to extend for several miles to the N and there were a number of smaller blazes throwing up smoke plumes elsewhere on the reservation.
To the S, I could see Jefferson, the Sisters, Black Butte, and (maybe) Theilsen. In the foreground is the burn that almost took out the Olallie Lake resort a few years back (plus another new small fire on the left).
After that it was a quick return to the TH and a long(ish) drive back to Portland. Short hike (7 mi, 2400’) but BIG, BIG views!
on the eastern fires..here's one article I could find ..
