{"id":602,"date":"2016-08-19T23:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/?p=602"},"modified":"2017-06-17T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T18:19:32","slug":"rocky-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/2016\/08\/19\/rocky-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, August 19 Rocky Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUMMARY:\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, we had two new experiences on the Divide today.<\/p>\n

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  1. This morning, till 11:00am, we were in<\/span> a cloud that had settled over the mountains overnight. Felt like a summer day back home!<\/li>\n
  2. The Divide changed from being a broad grassy or forested ridge to being very rocky and narrow, with a cliff on one side and a steep dropoff on the other.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We even got to climb a “knife edge” type ridge. The weather is much cooler today, which made an ideal day for hiking. The trail in the afternoon took us way<\/span> down into a very pretty valley, then over a ridge into another one. Wildflowers! Springs! So pretty!<\/p>\n

    DETAILS:\u00a0 <\/strong>Even though our get-up time is now 5:40, it was still very dark when we were ready to start hiking.\u00a0 I could hardly see the trail.\u00a0 But after a few minutes of hiking, we discovered WHY–it was because we were IN a cloud\/fog, in the forest.\u00a0 Everything was misty, and there was a cold wind blowing.\u00a0 We finally stopped to eat breakfast (shiver, shiver, brrrr) and hoped for a nice big PUD to climb so that we could get warm!<\/p>\n

    Eventually we were out of the forest, and oh boy–the Divide had a sheer cliff on one side and a very steep downslope on the other.\u00a0 And instead of grassy ground, it’s more like a rockpile–impossible to make a trail on, so we were back to “follow the rock cairns” in a bitter cold wind on a very narrow ridge with the big dropoff right next to us.\u00a0 There were a few very determined, rugged trees clinging to the rocks.<\/p>\n

    And then surprise! We met Medicare Pastor and Rockstar again!\u00a0 They are SOBO-iing this section of the CDT!\u00a0 It was fun to talk to them, but then we really needed to move on.\u00a0 We found a warm, sunny hollow, out of the wind, where we could have lunch, then it was back to steep climbing up another knife-edge ridge.\u00a0 The wind continued to be bitter cold, and we were wearing our down jackets even on the uphill!\u00a0 But the fog\/cloud was slowly clearing away and we had more and more blue sky.\u00a0 Wow, what a scene!\u00a0 This whole area is so rugged and rocky and impressive!<\/p>\n

    Finally the CDT headed down, way down, into a very pretty green valley, with springs and lakes and wildflowers.\u00a0 The trail followed the valley for awhile, then up we went again, over a ridge, and down the other side.\u00a0 That’s where we are camped now, in a grove of fir trees.\u00a0 Our feet are sore from the very rocky trail today, but wow, it was so awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SUMMARY:\u00a0 Well, we had two new experiences on the Divide today. This morning, till 11:00am, we were in a cloud that had settled over the mountains overnight. Felt like a summer day back home! The Divide changed from being a broad grassy or forested ridge to being very rocky and narrow, with a cliff on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idaho","category-montana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}