{"id":891,"date":"2014-03-02T03:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampntrail.wordpress.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2014-03-02T03:36:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:36:16","slug":"hike-6241-queer-lake-jan-18-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/2014\/03\/02\/hike-6241-queer-lake-jan-18-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hike #6241 &#8211; QUEER LAKE &#8211; January 18, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Write-up by: \u00a0Nancy Coleman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen hearty Tramps set out for a difficult hike after a week of rain and snow and cold weather.\u00a0 This is an 8 mile hike which includes a good amount of elevation change.\u00a0 Due to the time of year with short days, we kept a good pace to get out without headlamps.<\/p>\n<p>Jim and Lorrie Wasielewski and I had checked out the hike on Tuesday in the misty rain and we did take a shortcut.\u00a0 One of our members had asked if the hike could be shortened.\u00a0 The shortcut followed a stream that was filled with flowing water.\u00a0 We had to hike on the slanted sides which were covered in snow and ice.\u00a0 It was also poorly marked.\u00a0 Needless to say we hope we never have to do that again and would not recommend it to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>That left the actual hike partially unchecked.\u00a0 Ray Spahn stayed up with me and helped me many times when the trail was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>We had a wonderful spot for lunch, the lean-to at Queer Lake.\u00a0 Even though it adds another 1.6 miles to hike into and out from the lean-to, it is well worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>A tired group stopped for beverages on the way home.\u00a0 One hiker admitted to sleeping 11 hours after the hike.\u00a0 I plum tuckered her out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write-up by: \u00a0Nancy Coleman Fifteen hearty Tramps set out for a difficult hike after a week of rain and snow and cold weather.\u00a0 This is an 8 mile hike which includes a good amount of elevation change.\u00a0 Due to the time of year with short days, we kept a good pace to get out without headlamps. Jim and Lorrie Wasielewski and I had checked out the hike on Tuesday in the misty rain and we did take a shortcut.\u00a0 One&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/2014\/03\/02\/hike-6241-queer-lake-jan-18-2014\/\"> 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":[1396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}