{"id":15176,"date":"2019-12-29T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/?p=15176"},"modified":"2020-03-20T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T02:15:33","slug":"12-26-2019-wenatchee-saddle-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/2019\/12\/12-26-2019-wenatchee-saddle-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/26\/2019 &#8211; Wenatchee &#8211; Saddle Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div class=\"rw-trip-info\"><table style=\"border:none;margin:0;padding:0;\"><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Date<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">12\/26\/2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Location \/ Trail<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">Wenatchee- Saddle Hill<tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Weather<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">Cold<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Hiking Buddies<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">Carly, Gail, Otis and Thor<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Start \/ End<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">9:00 AM &ndash; 11:00 AM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Distance \/ Elev<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">3.8 miles &nbsp;&nbsp; 1000 ft elevation<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><div class=\"noPDF\" style=\"margin-left:30px; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:10px;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #2D6A2E; padding: 15px 30px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 30px; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.2), rgba(0,0,0,0.25)); display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/Hikes\/2019\/BigCliffMooreCreek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#128247; Pictures<\/a><a style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #2D6A2E; padding: 15px 30px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 30px; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.2), rgba(0,0,0,0.25)); display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/MapViewer.html?q=https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/hikemaps\/GPSTracks\/2019\/Wenatchee-SaddleHill20191226.gpx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#128506; Open Map Full Screen<\/a><\/div><div class=\"noPDF\"><div class=\"g4MapIframe\" href=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/MapAndElevationProfile.html?q=2019\/Wenatchee-SaddleHill20191226.gpx&#038;p=2019\/BigCliffMooreCreek\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/MapAndElevationProfile.html?q=2019\/Wenatchee-SaddleHill20191226.gpx&#038;p=2019\/BigCliffMooreCreek&v=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rw-pad20 g4MapImage\"><br\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"g4MapImage\" src=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapImages\/g4map15176.png\" class=\"g4MapImage\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"rw-pad20\">\nWe spent Christmas with Carly in Wentachee &#8211; Carly said we could do a quick hike the day after Christmas.  This trail started out behind her gym and climbed up to a view of Saddle Rock (or Hill &#8211; I keep interchanging them).  The trail was mostly snow free, but there were a few spots of snow and ice we had to be careful of.  Part way up the hill, this was the view looking back toward Wenatchee &#8211; you can see the spot where I said Carly&#8217;s house is (somewhere in there):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rw-pad20 rwphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/2019\/Wenatchee---Saddle-Hill\/i-DMnVqWt\/1\/7c8a2250\/L\/20191226_094957-L.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWe continued up and soon made it to the hill that overlooked Saddle rock:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rw-pad20 rwphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/2019\/Wenatchee---Saddle-Hill\/i-vkLJMnk\/0\/d534d0da\/L\/20191226_095002-L.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhile we were up there, Thor and Otis decided to run around and play:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rw-pad20 rwphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/2019\/Wenatchee---Saddle-Hill\/i-FCjcSBp\/0\/8a0d8225\/L\/20191226_095641-L.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhile up there we decided to take a slightly different route back down and hike by Rooster Comb (shown as Old Butte on the map).  We snaked our way down, using a faint user trail to get over to more of a proper trail.  I didn&#8217;t climb up on the rock, but it was pretty much the same view we had the whole trip.  This is what Rooster Comb looked like from the backside:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rw-pad20 rwphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/2019\/Wenatchee---Saddle-Hill\/i-dDL94w7\/0\/ce7b94f8\/L\/20191226_101924-L.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe whole hillside is covered in many trails &#8211; some official, some user trails.  They head off in many directions.<\/p>\n<p>It was a short hike, but it was interesting and a neat way to spend a couple of hours.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick trip up near Saddle Hill in Wenatchee &#8211; done while we were visiting Carly at Christmas &#8211; we left from behind her gym and went up to an overlook near Saddle Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,72],"tags":[26,28,35,202,57,203],"class_list":["post-15176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tripreport","category-tripreport2019","tag-fourstars","tag-carly","tag-gail","tag-otis","tag-thor","tag-wenatchee","wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}