{"id":48149,"date":"2018-07-19T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48149"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:25:11","slug":"a-mountain-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48149","title":{"rendered":"A Mountain Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monsoon Moon<\/p>\n<p>Coming back up 285 from visiting Dr. Gidday yesterday there was one of those temporary l.e.d. signs with orange cones around it. It read: High Bear Activity. Secure trash and lock cars. It was just after the big overhead l.e.d. sign saying fire ban in Jefferson County. Its usual message is: Watch for Wildlife and Falling Rocks. Summer in Colorado. In our now three and a half years here this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen the High Bear Activity sign. Those redlined fire danger signs are stuck at Very High, one notch below extreme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48152\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-48152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053837-e1532002786908-420x762.jpg\" alt=\"Red sky in the morning. That's my weather station in the lower left.\" width=\"420\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053837-e1532002786908-420x762.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053837-e1532002786908-744x1349.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053837-e1532002786908-768x1393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053837-e1532002786908-1200x2176.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red sky in the morning. That&#8217;s my weather station in the lower left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48150\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-48150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053714-e1532002941838-420x238.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn tints\" width=\"420\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053714-e1532002941838-420x238.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053714-e1532002941838-744x422.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053714-e1532002941838-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180719_053714-e1532002941838-1200x680.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn tints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monsoon Moon Coming back up 285 from visiting Dr. Gidday yesterday there was one of those temporary l.e.d. signs with orange cones around it. It read: High Bear Activity. Secure trash and lock cars. It was just after the big overhead l.e.d. sign saying fire ban in Jefferson County. Its usual message is: Watch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Mountain Summer<\/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":[4312,4317,3936,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountains-2","category-shadow-mountain","category-the-west","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48149","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=48149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48149\/revisions\/48153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}