{"id":2147,"date":"2018-06-20T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2018-06-20T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:11:05","slug":"brown-creek-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"Brown Creek loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I set out on the 16 mile Brown Creek Loop.\u00a0 The loop follows Brown Creek and Little Brown Creek to their sources, essentially circling Mt. White.\u00a0 I went counter clockwise climbing towards the headwaters of Little Brown Creek.\u00a0 The trail is steep, climbing 4,500ft in the first 6 miles.\u00a0 Just before tree line, a small meadow appeared with an incredible amount of flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2141 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1277-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1277-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1277-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1277-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1277-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1277.jpg 1600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2143 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1278-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1278-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1278-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1278-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1278-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1278.jpg 1600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trail wound higher to above tree line, maxing out around 13,000ft.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day, a little wind, but sunny.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2140 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1280-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1280-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1280-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1280-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1280-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1280.jpg 1600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2146 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1281-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1281-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1281-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1281-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1281-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1281.jpg 1600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once I got to the top, the trail followed a forest road to the edge of a lake.\u00a0 It then was a very runable single track down.\u00a0 \u00a0I made the journey a little longer since I took a wrong turn somewhere along the way.\u00a0 After 17 miles and 4,500ft of climb, I&#8217;m happy to be heading to Whiskey Wednesday at Deerhammer Distillery.<\/p>\n<pre>WP Strava ERROR strava_info should be an array, received: false<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I set out on the 16 mile Brown Creek Loop.\u00a0 The loop follows Brown Creek and Little Brown Creek to their sources, essentially circling Mt. White.\u00a0 I went counter clockwise climbing towards the headwaters of Little Brown Creek.\u00a0 The trail is steep, climbing 4,500ft in the first 6 miles.\u00a0 Just before tree line, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}