{"id":320,"date":"2003-07-14T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=320"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:23:12","slug":"north-cascades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/07\/14\/north-cascades\/","title":{"rendered":"North Cascades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/alpineflowers.jpg?resize=350%2C340\" alt=\"alpineflowers.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"340\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took a quick, overnight trip up to the Methow Valley, just on the east side of the North Cascade mountains. The weather and scenery were beautiful, as usual. If felt great to be back in this terrain.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad the focus is a bit off on the photo of the flowers above&#8230;<br \/>\nThe first two shots below were taken from the North Cascades Scenic Highway near Washington Pass. The third was taken during a hike nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/northcascades01.jpg?resize=350%2C255\" alt=\"northcascades01.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/northcascades02.jpg?resize=350%2C225\" alt=\"northcascades02.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/northcascades03.jpg?resize=350%2C255\" alt=\"northcascades03.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick, overnight trip up to the Methow Valley, just on the east side of the North Cascade mountains. The weather and scenery were beautiful, as usual. If felt great to be back in this terrain. Too bad the focus is a bit off on the photo of the flowers above&#8230; The first&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/07\/14\/north-cascades\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Cascades<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-5a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}