{"id":669,"date":"2012-08-05T18:20:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:06:31","slug":"mt-greylock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Mt Greylock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/5\/12 &#8211; 1581 miles<br \/>\nToday I got a taste of climbing  mountains again. It was a 2000 foot ascent to the top of Mt. Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts.  All afternoon the skies were covered in mist and it rained lightly on and off. By the time I reached Bascom Lodge at the summit and checked into the bunkhouse, the wind was howling and the monument was shrouded in fog. I took a shower, ate a hamburger at the restaurant, and met some new hikers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120805_175229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120805_175229-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20120805_175229\" title=\"20120805_175229\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120805_175229-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120805_175229-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe sun has come out now and the sky is clearing, casting unobstructed views of the surrounding countryside. I am relaxing at the lodge while an African band plays in the next room. They are serving dinner soon but the price tag left me out.<\/p>\n<p>I will have a short hike into Williamstown tomorrow where I will probably take a day off. I need a rest. My feet are saying give me a break please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/5\/12 &#8211; 1581 miles Today I got a taste of climbing mountains again. It was a 2000 foot ascent to the top of Mt. Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts. All afternoon the skies were covered in mist and it rained lightly on and off. By the time I reached Bascom Lodge at the summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}