{"id":98,"date":"2014-06-02T23:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T23:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/?p=98"},"modified":"2018-09-15T23:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T23:18:26","slug":"mirror-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/2014\/06\/02\/mirror-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon State Archives posted an historic photo of Mirror Lake on their Facebook page yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Historic photo of Mirror Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MirrorLake_OSA.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><br \/>\nUndated photo of Mirror Lake (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OregonStateArchives\/photos\/a.332597276807385.77905.328291870571259\/695652823835160\/?type=1\"><em>Oregon State Archives<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I thought at first that the denuded forest was the result of logging, but it might be because of a wildfire. A fire did hit the area in April of 1931. In the April 28, 1931 edition of <em>The Oregonian<\/em>, there were several separate mentions of a fire at Mirror Lake and at nearby Laurel Hill during an unusual spring heat wave:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119\" alt=\"04-28-1931d\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/04-28-1931d.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115\" alt=\"04-28-1931\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/04-28-1931.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117\" alt=\"04-28-1931b\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/04-28-1931b.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118\" alt=\"04-28-1931c\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/04-28-1931c.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether before or after that fire (most likely before), this area was definitely heavily logged, and in fact if you hike up to Mirror Lake you can see huge stumps with the springboard notches in them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4f\/Cutting_a_snag.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><br \/>\nSpringboard logging on Larch Mountain in 1943 (USFS)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/springboard20131-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><br \/>\nOld springboard notches along the Mirror Lake Trail in 2013<\/p>\n<p>Mirror Lake has been a popular hiking destination for many years. The following write-up appeared in the March 11, 1934 edition of <em>The Oregonian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" alt=\"03-11-1934\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/03-11-1934.jpg\" width=\"293\" height=\"920\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today Mirror Lake is one of the most popular hiking destinations in the Mt. Hood National Forest. The view has changed somewhat from the old postcard above since the trees have grown up quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mirrorlake2006-1024x767.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><br \/>\nMirror Lake in 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon State Archives posted an historic photo of Mirror Lake on their Facebook page yesterday. Undated photo of Mirror Lake (Oregon State Archives) I thought at first that the denuded forest was the result of logging, but it might be because of a wildfire. A fire did hit the area in April of 1931. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/2014\/06\/02\/mirror-lake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mirror Lake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/portlandhistory.net\/mounthoodhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}