{"id":2935,"date":"2015-05-07T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:48:27","slug":"hiking-around-the-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/hiking-around-the-arroyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Around the Arroyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing how similar the landscape here is to home. Superficially, one might say it’s quite different — more trees, bluer greens, redder browns, and bigger cacti.\u00a0 But it’s a similar semi-arid landscape of rolling hills anchored by dry creek beds that occasionally fill. Here, they are arroyos. At home, they are coulees.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival yesterday, John showed me a trail head into a massive network of trails developed by the local residents. I headed out around 11:30 and hiked for a couple of hours. The weather was perfect, not too sunny or warm. I walked until I ran out of obviously trail and then found my way back. I picked the wrong path a few times and had to keep reminding myself I was only misplaced, not lost, so long as I could get back to a point where I was still on the right track. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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It really does look a lot like home!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I want to go back and climb that slope of rock. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some sort of willow grove.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Salix is very distinctive.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Dandelion!\"<\/a>

Dandelion!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Water!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Such a variety of landscapes!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crap. Which way?<\/p><\/div>\n

What a lovely way to spend a few hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing how similar the landscape here is to home. Superficially, one might say it’s quite different — more trees, bluer greens, redder browns, and bigger cacti.\u00a0 But it’s a similar semi-arid landscape of rolling hills anchored by dry creek beds that occasionally fill. Here, they are arroyos. At home, they are coulees. Upon arrival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,635,863,3,16],"tags":[654],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico","category-north-america","category-santa-fe","category-travel","category-usa","tag-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}