{"id":2685,"date":"2025-11-16T07:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:43:05","slug":"the-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"Mary&#8217;s Peak &#8211; Benton County, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary&#8217;s Peak is the highest point in the Coast Range.\u00a0 The day Kat and I visited, the summit was well above a cloud bank.\u00a0 [Photos <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\" alt=\"copyright symbol\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a> Max Vollmer, Click on any image to enlarge]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3458\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Above-the-clouds-on-summit-of-marys-peak-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3458\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Above-the-clouds-on-summit-of-marys-peak-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above the clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3456\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kat-on-Marys-Peak-Sept.-11-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3456\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kat-on-Marys-Peak-Sept.-11-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat Jenison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2711\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20250911_181302278_BURST001-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2711\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20250911_181302278_BURST001-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ocean of clouds.\u00a0 View to the West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary&#8217;s Peak is the highest point in the Coast Range.\u00a0 The day Kat and I visited, the summit was well above a cloud bank.\u00a0 [Photos Max Vollmer, Click on any image to enlarge]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}