{"id":9564,"date":"2011-03-01T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2011-03-01T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:58:02","slug":"tracks-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9564","title":{"rendered":"Tracks in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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 Waning Bridgit Moon<\/p>\n<p>Whew.\u00a0 Just got back from snowshoeing to the ridge crest, leaving from from a side door in the Monastery&#8217;s east side.\u00a0 Along the way I came upon other tracks, rabbit and deer I recognized, but one large <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9565\" title=\"tubbs-snowshoes-altitude-36_280609708106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tubbs-snowshoes-altitude-36_280609708106-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"tubbs-snowshoes-altitude-36_280609708106\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tubbs-snowshoes-altitude-36_280609708106-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tubbs-snowshoes-altitude-36_280609708106.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>print I did not.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t imagine what it could have been though it looked like bear to me.<\/p>\n<p>I used to snowshoe every morning for my aerobic workout, a few years ago now.\u00a0 In fact, I worked at it so hard that I ripped a boot mount off the base of the snowshoe.\u00a0 That stopped me that year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never really gotten back to it.\u00a0 Felt good.<\/p>\n<p>So far today about 4,300 words.\u00a0 A better than normal day at home, by about a factor of two, so I think this concentrated time will pay off.\u00a0 I&#8217;m learning how to work away from home.\u00a0 Not expert at it yet by any means.\u00a0 I left two chapters at home, late ones.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how I missed them, but I&#8217;m working around that just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Working on the yellow pad is less stressful on the arms than using the keyboard on my knees.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a plus.\u00a0 So is the quiet and the lack of interruption.\u00a0 On the downside.\u00a0 No Kate.\u00a0 No dogs.\u00a0 Not my bed.<\/p>\n<p>It has already got me back in the traces.\u00a0 What I wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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 Waning Bridgit Moon Whew.\u00a0 Just got back from snowshoeing to the ridge crest, leaving from from a side door in the Monastery&#8217;s east side.\u00a0 Along the way I came upon other tracks, rabbit and deer I recognized, but one large print I did not.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t imagine what it could have been though it looked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracks in the Snow<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564","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=9564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9567,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions\/9567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}