{"id":115,"date":"2009-10-11T07:31:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-10-11T07:31:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:31:46","slug":"the-maroon-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"The Maroon Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997 my Mom and I went to Aspen, Colorado during spring break. During this trip we ventured over to the Maroon Bells, a beautiful set of 14,000 foot peaks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118\" title=\"The Maroon Bells\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00374.jpg\" alt=\"The instanty recognizable Maroon Bells\" width=\"706\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00374.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00374-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The instanty recognizable Maroon Bells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The valley had just been opened up after being cleared of avalanche danger. To get there at this time of year required snowmobiles, since the snow over the road was still several feet deep. Mom and I spent all morning there in the valley with just the mountains, snow, and hot chocolate provided by the little shack at the end of the road. It was a pristine and beautiful morning, and I will not forget being there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117\" title=\"Aspens and Shadows\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/aspens_redo.jpg\" alt=\"Aspens and Shadows\" width=\"706\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/aspens_redo.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/aspens_redo-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aspens and Shadows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119\" title=\"Blue and Gold\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00404.jpg\" alt=\"Blue and gold contrast amplified by the polarizing filter I was using\" width=\"706\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00404.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00404-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue and gold contrast amplified by the polarizing filter I was using<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120\" title=\"Some of the surrounding peaks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00407.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the surrounding peaks\" width=\"706\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00407.jpg 706w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/comprehensive_00407-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the surrounding peaks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121\" title=\"Silver Aspens\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silver_aspens.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Aspens\" width=\"522\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silver_aspens.jpg 522w, https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silver_aspens-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silver Aspens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997 my Mom and I went to Aspen, Colorado during spring break. During this trip we ventured over to the Maroon Bells, a beautiful set of 14,000 foot peaks. The valley had just been opened up after being cleared of avalanche danger. To get there at this time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}