{"id":1025,"date":"2009-06-27T21:24:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2011-08-13T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:45:22","slug":"rocky-mountain-national-park-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2009\/rocky-mountain-national-park-2009","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain National Park 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-tree-mountains-fused.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2906 aligncenter\" title=\"rmnp-tree-mountains-small\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-tree-mountains-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-tree-mountains-small.jpg 550w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-tree-mountains-small-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-tree-mountains-small-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While in Colorado we had the opportunity to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/romo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-lake-mountains-toned.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2911 aligncenter\" title=\"rmnp-lake-mountains-small\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-lake-mountains-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-lake-mountains-small.jpg 550w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-lake-mountains-small-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-lake-mountains-small-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-mushroom-rocks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1031 alignright\" title=\"rmnp-mushroom-rocks\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-mushroom-rocks-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-mushroom-rocks-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-mushroom-rocks.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The first day I hiked around the Bear Lake area and took <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rmnp-tree-mountains-toned.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">HDR photos<\/a> of the taller peaks. I was lucky the sky stayed clear until noon (<a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/travel\/rockymtnpark09\/\" target=\"_blank\">gallery photos<\/a> 1-15).<\/p>\n<p>On the second day we did a car tour along Trail Ridge Road. There were more clouds and even some rain. At one point we hiked up to an alpine desert above 12,000 ft. These &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-mushroom-rocks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">mushroom rocks<\/a>&#8221; offered an unusual photographic subject.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-elk-grazing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1032\" title=\"rmnp-elk-grazing\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-elk-grazing-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-elk-grazing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-elk-grazing.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Along the way we saw both elk and the wily marmot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-marmot-in-repose.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1033\" title=\"rmnp-marmot-in-repose\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-marmot-in-repose-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-marmot-in-repose-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rmnp-marmot-in-repose.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Colorado we had the opportunity to visit Rocky Mountain National Park. The first day I hiked around the Bear Lake area and took HDR photos of the taller peaks. I was lucky the sky stayed clear until noon (gallery photos 1-15). On the second day we did a car tour along Trail Ridge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2009\/rocky-mountain-national-park-2009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocky Mountain National Park 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-flowers","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}