{"id":43933,"date":"2017-07-05T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=43933"},"modified":"2017-07-05T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:28:06","slug":"wednesday-night-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/07\/05\/wednesday-night-road-not-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; Road not taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>had a work meeting which i took this AM despite vacation.. was good to check in on things in Germany..<\/p>\n<p>The DIane and I packed and took off for &nbsp;hike. We stopped by Jimmy&#8217;s to see if he wanted to go.. but he wasn&#8217;t in<\/p>\n<p>Our goal was to go to Molly Stark&#8217;s Balcony in the Appilachin Gap&#8230; . we got pretty far down the hintingon road and saw a sign that the road was closed&#8230; You have yto appreciate rural vermont roads to understand how wierd it is to close &nbsp;a road like that.. there is no &#8216;going around&#8217;.. anny thing to get around the block would mean an extra hour of driving or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We were not to be detered.. we decided we&#8217;d take a differnt trail up the side of Camels hump. We chose forest city trail.. which is really nice.. not that steep.. and near a stream..&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8463.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8464.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8466.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hiled up to the top to Montclair Glen lodge&#8230; we camped there in 1983 in April with 3 feet of snow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8459.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8445.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8450.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8448.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8455.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8458.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>on the way down, I couldn&#8217;t &nbsp;resist jumping in the creek.. it was cold !. I&#8217;ll spare you the pictures !<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8494.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8482.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8487.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8471.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8473.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8476.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on the way down (and up) we found this cool old steam boiler &#8230; perfect place for a samstone !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8491.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8489.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>ok.. getting sleepy so I&#8217;ll quit there (and its&#8217; onluy 3:30 PM !)<\/p>\n<p>nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>had a work meeting which i took this AM despite vacation.. was good to check in on things in Germany.. The DIane and I packed and took off for &nbsp;hike. We stopped by Jimmy&#8217;s to see if he wanted to go.. but he wasn&#8217;t in Our goal was to go to Molly Stark&#8217;s Balcony in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/07\/05\/wednesday-night-road-not-taken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; Road not taken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43984,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933\/revisions\/43984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}