{"id":2174,"date":"2018-06-29T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:29:30","slug":"2174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"Preston is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston got here on Tuesday and CW left on Wednesday.\u00a0 Since Preston is coming from sea level, we&#8217;ve been acclimatizing slowly.\u00a0 After dropping CW off, we drove to St. Elmo with the dogs and hiked 1,500 feet up to Popular Gulch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2172 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1309-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1309-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1309-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1309-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1309-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1309.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>Preston was beat, but the dogs were on alert for critters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2173 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1307-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1307-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1307-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1307-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1307-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1307.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\/469;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the hike, we took the truck on the 4wd road to the Hancock Trailhead to see how back the road was since it&#8217;s an aid station on my August race.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2169 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1310-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1310-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1310-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1310-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1310-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1310.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>On Thursday, we hiked up Avalanche to the Mt Yale saddle.\u00a0 Google did a little magic on the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2170 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0313-EFFECTS-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0313-EFFECTS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0313-EFFECTS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0313-EFFECTS-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0313-EFFECTS-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0313-EFFECTS.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\/469;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later in the afternoon, we headed downtown to the South Main park for pizza and a game of Frisbee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2171 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0324-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0324-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0324-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0324-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0324.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\/469;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we are going to climb Midland hill with the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston got here on Tuesday and CW left on Wednesday.\u00a0 Since Preston is coming from sea level, we&#8217;ve been acclimatizing slowly.\u00a0 After dropping CW off, we drove to St. Elmo with the dogs and hiked 1,500 feet up to Popular Gulch. Preston was beat, but the dogs were on alert for critters. After the hike, [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","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=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}