{"id":2335,"date":"2007-07-31T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2007-07-31T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:51:06","slug":"a-walk-in-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/07\/31\/a-walk-in-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk In The Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/craterlakeview.jpg\" title=\"craterlakeview.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/craterlakeview.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"craterlakeview.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi Mike,<\/p>\n<p>My old buddy Joe, a long-standing member of the Fogies Five (and an even longer-standing member of the &#8220;B.A.D.&#8221; club when we were CU grad students), and I went on a hike up to the alpine meadows of the Crater Lakes cirque, 30 miles west of Boulder. Along with us came Wayne, Joe&#8217;s postdoc.  Wayne is from the Phoenix\/Tucson inferno, and hasn&#8217;t had much of a chance to cruise the high country.  The hike up to Crater Lakes exceeded all of our expectations.  After 3 miles of steep hiking through the woods, we reached timberline, and found one of Colorado&#8217;s finest alpine meadows. We lolled around among the flowers, and would still be up there (I&#8217;m writing after dark), were it not that threatening thunderclouds and lightning drove  us out and down the trail.  We hiked on home wards through a refreshing hailstorm and found Boulder wrapped in clouds, teeming with rain.  Wayne carried back a rapidly melting chunk of a snowfield from the cirque, so he can show it (re-frozen) to his Arizona family, many of whom have never (!) seen snow.<\/p>\n<p>Another great day in the Rockies!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.schmahl.org\/CraterLakes2007\" title=\"Photos\" target=\"_blank\"> Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Mike, My old buddy Joe, a long-standing member of the Fogies Five (and an even longer-standing member of the &#8220;B.A.D.&#8221; club when we were CU grad students), and I went on a hike up to the alpine meadows of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/07\/31\/a-walk-in-the-hills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}