{"id":104,"date":"2009-05-17T22:41:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T03:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2025-02-27T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:38:04","slug":"best-of-todays-climb-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2009\/05\/17\/best-of-todays-climb-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of today&#8217;s climb &#8211; Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabulous day, clear sky, mild temps, hiking without having to carry tons of extra clothes, just in case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And the pink from two weeks ago, today has turned white.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2164\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llplume.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llplume.jpg 586w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llplume-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><br \/>\nWhile along the deep forested trail sunlight singles out the wildflowers against the dark backdrop of the woods.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2165\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower1.jpg 954w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower1-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><br \/>\nI was hiking with the guy who I ran into on the trail a couple of weeks ago and I didn&#8217;t feel quite the need to beg his indulgence as his son was along shooting an occasional photo as well.<\/p>\n<p>As usual however, you can find me at the end of the line, trying to compose one last shot.<\/p>\n<p>We made it to the summit in about 5 and a half hours, and as we clinked our glasses at the bar we kept to the slogan we adopted on our first climb together 2 weeks ago, &#8220;you are not finished till you see the foam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2166\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower2.jpg 623w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/llwildflower2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabulous day, clear sky, mild temps, hiking without having to carry tons of extra clothes, just in case&#8230; And the pink from two weeks ago, today has turned white. While along the deep forested trail sunlight singles out the wildflowers against the dark backdrop of the woods. I was hiking with the guy who I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-and-environs","category-hiking-in-new-mexico","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}