That isn't a post in the photo, it is a small snag. It is located a couple of hundred feet below the junction with the Oak Grove Butte Trail where the sidehill starts to get really steep. There was a couple of inches of snow at the bottom, but over a foot deep up by the road where you top out on Sunday.

That is probably why I didn't recognize it.  I don't think I've been up the trail that far....

Okay, here's a new picture from sunnier times. It might be a familiar view to some of you. What trail am I on?  

Looks suspiciously like the June Lake Trail south of Baty Butte along the divide between the Clackamas and the Molalla. Here is a  close picture from about the same spot.

Bryon, you are correct!  The view looks almost exactly the same.  We were a little more than a mile south of Baty Butte when I took this picture earlier this summer.   Do you have a picture for us?

I took this photo of a mountain lake and a young familily from north of Seattle in 2007. I took their email promising to send them a copy but my camera with the notebook was stolen before I could.   This unnamed small lake is just off a main trail near one edge of the Clackamas River Ranger District. The lake is visible from the trail, though the picture is taken from a spot between the lake and the trail

It looks like this might be in the Olallie Lake scenic area?

Kirk Tolstrup said:

It looks like this might be in the Olallie Lake scenic area?

Indeed. But what trail am I on?

How about the Potato Butte Trail?

Kirk Tolstrup said:

How about the Potato Butte Trail?

That's a trail on my to-do list but I haven't hiked it yet.   There are some nice long-range viewpoints near this lake.

Bryon Boyce said:

There are some nice long-range viewpoints near this lake.

Is this the small lake that's about half a mile north of where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses the road near Breitenbush Lake?

Kirk Tolstrup said:

Is this the small lake that's about half a mile north of where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses the road near Breitenbush Lake?

No, but you are considerably closer this time. Way too many lakes up there! Not only are there fine far-ranging views very close to this lake, you do not need to to climb a peak to see them - just keep on the trail.

Would that be the lake on the way up to Pyramid Butte?

Donald Presley said:

Would that be the lake on the way up to Pyramid Butte?

Nope, and your try is far afield. The lake location is within the scenic area, and just inside the Clackamas River Drainage. And it is north of the trail involved.

Bryon Boyce said:

Nope, and your try is far afield. The lake location is within the scenic area, and just inside the Clackamas River Drainage. And it is north of the trail involved.

  Is it this little lake?

Kirk Tolstrup said: 

Is it this little lake?

Yes, and its just off the PCT 2000. Have you another picture for our entertainment?

Bryon Boyce said:

Have you another picture for our entertainment?

  Well here's a photo. It's not nearly as beautiful as yours was. But hopefully it will be entertaining.     Like I said, it's not a very good photograph. The clue is that there are a lot of these things along this trail, and this tree has two of them.

So Kirk, is this trail near a lookout, and is it in an wilderness area? I have seen several trees like that one, I just can't remember where, but I believe it was near an old lookout site somewhere in our district.

Donald Presley said:

So Kirk, is this trail near a lookout, and is it in an wilderness area? I have seen several trees like that one, I just can't remember where, but I believe it was near an old lookout site somewhere in our district.

No Don, it's not in a wilderness area but it does connect to at least two lookout sites.

Kirk Tolstrup said:

No Don, it"s not in a wilderness area but it does connect to at least two lookout sites.   Kirk, is that picture taken from the Rho Ridge Trail. I know that there were a lot of insulators on that trail? Don