Lookout Mountain is a 6525 foot high glaciated shield volcano eight miles east of Mount Hood. The highest peak in a long system of ridges, it catches the brunt of the storms sweeping over the Cascade Mountain Range. In this picture, freezing fog deposits rime ice, a form of frost, on trees and rocks just below the summit of Lookout Mtn.
Lookout Mountain was named for the fire lookout tower that was built on the summit in the 1930s. That tower is gone except for its concrete foundation. Lookout Mountain is now included in the northern edge of the Badger Creek Wilderness. The original access road to the lookout has been converted to a nicely graded trail. It is a little more than a one mile hike from the trailhead at High Prairie the summit. The lower half of the trail passes through subalpine wildflower-filled meadows.
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Freezing Fog Frosts the Trees and Cliffs on Lookout Mountain with Rime Ice.
