{"id":298,"date":"2005-09-25T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=298"},"modified":"2005-10-11T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T01:19:15","slug":"my-grand-colorado-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"my grand colorado adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We set off on the aeroplane.  I&#8217;m allowed to drink some guava juice, although it&#8217;s rather sweet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 235px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/37540137-S.jpg\" alt=\"russell at nevado de toluca\"\/><\/div>\n<p>After sleeping in the van overnight in the Walmart carpark, we go to REI in Denver the next morning to buy some fuel for the stove (well, that&#8217;s what they say, we seem to wander around a lot looking at other things).  Then I play with some friendly bear cubs I found in the gardens outside.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 235px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/37540214-S.jpg\" alt=\"russell at nevado de toluca\"\/><\/div>\n<p>That night we climbed the Third Flatiron by the light of the full moon, which was rather enjoyable.  Here you can see me against the lights of Boulder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elementalphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/38158631-S.jpg\" alt=\"russell at nevado de toluca\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The following day we drove up towards Rocky Mountain National Park, and I went bouldering at Lumpy Ridge &#8211; the altitude was a bit of a killer, I can tell you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 235px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/37571686-S-1.jpg\" alt=\"russell at nevado de toluca\"\/><\/div>\n<p>We climbed Longs Peak (14,261 ft) the next day, summiting at 8.30am.  Unfortunately it was rather windy, and I kept blowing off this boulder &#8211; luckily I wasn&#8217;t near the edge.  However, for the sake of a photograph I had to be weighted down with a Nalgene bottle full of water.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/37571613-S.jpg\" alt=\"russell at nevado de toluca\"\/><\/div>\n<p>And <em>then<\/em> we went and climbed Mt Elbert, the highest peak to be bagged in Colorado, at 14,440 feet.  It&#8217;s the highest I&#8217;d ever been.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/37665018-S.jpg\" alt=\"russell at nevado de toluca\"\/><\/div>\n<p>And then I went home.  The End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We set off on the aeroplane. I&#8217;m allowed to drink some guava juice, although it&#8217;s rather sweet. After sleeping in the van overnight in the Walmart carpark, we go to REI in Denver the next morning to buy some fuel for the stove (well, that&#8217;s what they say, we seem to wander around a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russell"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=15\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">russell<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">russell<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 21 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 25.9.2005","modified":"Updated on 11.10.2005"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 25.9.2005 9:00 pm","modified":"Updated on 11.10.2005 9:19 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}