{"id":784,"date":"2012-11-09T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2012-11-09T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:27:50","slug":"short-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Short Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I camped last night on a forest service road a few miles west of Forest Lakes. It was a beautiful area, surrounded by a stately grove of Ponderosa Pine, nestled deep within the Apache-Sitgreaves NF. The campground even had toilets.<\/p>\n<p>I was feeling pretty good so I decided to go on a short hike. Earlier, I had stopped at a Ranger Station and obtained literature on places to camp and one of the brochures showed a trail that looped down to Willow Spring Lake. It looked to be about 7 miles. The temperature was perfect for a hike &#8211; low 60&#8217;s I would guess &#8211; and with the coming storm a day away, implored that I shouldn&#8217;t wait any longer.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m used to hiking on trails that are well marked. I came to several Y&#8217;s and had to guess which way to go. Apparently, I chose the wrong trail because I never did find the lake. After hiking a little over an hour, I turned around and came back, probably covering a distance of six miles. I&#8217;m glad to report that I feel good and apparently my knee and foot are continuing to improve. <\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;ve been hanging out in Payson and will head down to lower altitude for tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I camped last night on a forest service road a few miles west of Forest Lakes. It was a beautiful area, surrounded by a stately grove of Ponderosa Pine, nestled deep within the Apache-Sitgreaves NF. The campground even had toilets. I was feeling pretty good so I decided to go on a short hike. Earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}