{"id":1803,"date":"2014-12-27T03:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampntrail.wordpress.com\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2014-12-27T03:32:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T19:32:42","slug":"6351-bald-mountain-122714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/2014\/12\/27\/6351-bald-mountain-122714\/","title":{"rendered":"#6351 &#8211; Bald Mountain &#8211; December 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Write-up: Meg Higgerson<br \/>\nLeader: Meg Higgerson<br \/>\nCo leader: Sharon Kaelin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">On a quest to burn some Holiday calories, 18 Tramp and Trail members climbed Bald Mountain. <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6606-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1804 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6606-copy.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_6606 copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The weather was overcast but well above freezing. Because of our warm and rainy holidays, we encountered little snow on our climb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1805 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6618-copy.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_6618 copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully we all had micro spikes or crampons because we did encounter lots of rock surfaces with ice and packed snow from much foot traffic on the rock outcroppings and surfaces of Bald.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6631-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1807\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6631-copy.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_6631 copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We stopped a number of times on the way up to view Third lake of the Fulton Chain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having lunch at the tower, we then waded through the crowds of other hikers to see the \u201cbalanced\u201d rock.\u00a0\u00a0 The return down the mountain was quick and after a salute to the hike leader and cookie baker, we parted ways!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6650-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1808 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_6650-copy.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_6650 copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Another fun day with good friends!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write-up: Meg Higgerson Leader: Meg Higgerson Co leader: Sharon Kaelin On a quest to burn some Holiday calories, 18 Tramp and Trail members climbed Bald Mountain. The weather was overcast but well above freezing. Because of our warm and rainy holidays, we encountered little snow on our climb. &nbsp; &nbsp; Thankfully we all had micro spikes or crampons because we did encounter lots of rock surfaces with ice and packed snow from much foot traffic on the rock outcroppings and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/2014\/12\/27\/6351-bald-mountain-122714\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1222],"tags":[1242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}