{"id":47461,"date":"2018-05-16T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47461"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:49:33","slug":"night-on-bald-mountain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47461","title":{"rendered":"Night on Bald Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sumi-e Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47462\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lightning-mountain-storm-rmnp-420x242.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky Mountain National Park\" width=\"420\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lightning-mountain-storm-rmnp-420x242.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lightning-mountain-storm-rmnp.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocky Mountain National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday night we had a thunder storm. While growing up and living in the Midwest, close to sea level and in the humid east, we didn&#8217;t think about cloud heights much. Clouds are way up there; we&#8217;re down here. Straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>But look at this definition: Cumulus clouds are low-level clouds, generally less than 2,000\u00a0m (6,600\u00a0ft). Well. Here on Shadow Mountain we are at 8,800 feet. Over the last week we&#8217;ve been within many cumulus clouds, dense fog advisories being common, not because of an ocean, but because of our elevation.<\/p>\n<p>That thunder storm Sunday night was relentless. Lightning strikes, bright flashes, big thunder. And a lot of the time it felt like it was happening right where we were. It probably was. This was being in a thunderstorm, not under it.<\/p>\n<p>Quite the experience. Naps the next day all round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sumi-e Moon On Sunday night we had a thunder storm. While growing up and living in the Midwest, close to sea level and in the humid east, we didn&#8217;t think about cloud heights much. Clouds are way up there; we&#8217;re down here. Straightforward. But look at this definition: Cumulus clouds are low-level clouds, generally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Night on Bald Mountain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4301,13,4317,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moocs-2","category-our-land","category-shadow-mountain","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47464,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47461\/revisions\/47464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}