Carpenter Mountain Hike

Yesterday a group of 8 of us headed up the Mackenzie for a hike. We decided that climbing up Wolf Rock was to dangerous for the group assembled; therefore we went searching for Carpenter Mountain Lookout.

The ranger station had told us that the trail is marked, but did not say off of which road. The map book we had did not show all the roads so we ended up circumnavigating the mountain without finding the trail. About 2 hours of driving on gravel roads, some quite rough (4X4 off-roading almost), we came to a closed gate on a road that we thought would take us up there we decided to go down to the “Experimental Forrest Office” near Blue River Lake to ask. Once we got near the office we found a road side map/sign that showed us the right roads to take.

Then we were able to go straight to the trail for the one mile hike to the top. It is a cool place. The lookout house sits on the very top of this mountain. The top is a rock about 20X20 and the house is about 15X15 with a railed porch all the way around. So the building sits right on top with cliffs falling away on three sides. Great view. There is a college student that lives up there watching for fires with a 360 view during the fire season.

At the bottom we talked about how Jesus said, “my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” What does he mean? Look it up: Matt 11.28-30; John 14.27; Phil 4.7