{"id":3337,"date":"2011-07-29T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2011-08-03T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T13:08:33","slug":"old-goat-glacier-thumbs-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Old Goat Glacier &#8211; thumbs down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Goat Glacier is one of the K-Country hikes that is closest to Canmore.  Behind the Spray Lakes campground, it&#8217;s easily accessible, tucked under Old Goat Mountain.  And it&#8217;s a nice enough little walk.  As long as you don&#8217;t go out expecting too much from the glacier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Hiking\/Bow-Valley-Hiking-2011\/i-MWVRbBs\/0\/M\/IMG4321-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was underwhelmed.  Unfortunately my photographer didn&#8217;t capture my thumb silhouetted against the sky, but it&#8217;s definitely getting a firm thumbs down rating.  The glacier obviously used to be much bigger.  And there was a nice moraine to walk in along.  But otherwise &#8211; not terribly exciting.  And walking into the dead-end glacial valley was a little bit spooky, with huge walls looming either side of you and ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Hiking\/Bow-Valley-Hiking-2011\/i-9CRsh9H\/0\/M\/IMG4331-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I managed to stumble on the scree and slammed my shins into some nice sharp rocks, gouging one hole that was deep enough to show the white bits &#8211; the bits you see and go &#8220;Ooh, that might need stitches&#8221;.  Being a busy long weekend in town, needless to say I decided I&#8217;d manage without sitting in Emergency for six hours, opting instead to go and listen to some free folk music from the festival.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Hiking\/Bow-Valley-Hiking-2011\/i-TPmBmv9\/0\/M\/IMG4361-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw these Mountain Sheep on the way back into town as well.  It would have been more poetic if they were goats.  Maybe if you just squint at them a bit and pretend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Goat Glacier is one of the K-Country hikes that is closest to Canmore. Behind the Spray Lakes campground, it&#8217;s easily accessible, tucked under Old Goat Mountain. And it&#8217;s a nice enough little walk. As long as you don&#8217;t go out expecting too much from the glacier. I was underwhelmed. Unfortunately my photographer didn&#8217;t capture [&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":[24,1,123],"tags":[392,391,1360],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-general","category-hiking","tag-k-country","tag-kananaskis","tag-old-goat-glacier"],"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=24\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">canada<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=123\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">hiking<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">canada<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">hiking<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=123\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">k-country<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=123\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">kananaskis<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=123\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">old goat glacier<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">k-country<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">kananaskis<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">old goat glacier<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 15 years ago","modified":"Updated 15 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 29.7.2011","modified":"Updated on 3.8.2011"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 29.7.2011 6:50 am","modified":"Updated on 3.8.2011 7:08 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","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=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}