{"id":415,"date":"2012-04-10T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:09:15","slug":"rocky-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday and Monday were good days. Holidays seem pretty much like any other day out here. You just push on North and marvel at the beauty of this landscape. I&#8217;m not meeting many day hikers now, most have gone back to there jobs and school.  I feel lucky to be out here, exercising my body and relaxing my mind.  The goals and needs of a hiker are simple and basic.  <\/p>\n<p>I feel good so far.  The knee complains sometimes, but I slow down and baby step the descents.  I have seen many hikers &#8211; younger than me &#8211; hobbling with knee problems.<\/p>\n<p>I stay warm at night. It helps to find a campsite down low out of the wind, but sometimes your mileage leaves you with no choice but camp on a mountain.  I spent Easter night on top of Rocky Mtn. and woke to howling winds and a temp of 38 degrees.  It was pretty hard to crawl out and hike the next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday and Monday were good days. Holidays seem pretty much like any other day out here. You just push on North and marvel at the beauty of this landscape. I&#8217;m not meeting many day hikers now, most have gone back to there jobs and school. I feel lucky to be out here, exercising my body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-appalachian-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}