{"id":1117,"date":"2015-06-13T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T03:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2015-06-13T03:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T03:08:29","slug":"second-visit-to-rmnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Second Visit to RMNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday we made a second trip to The Park, since we&#8217;d only gotten as far as the Continental Divide on our first trip.\u00a0 On the way, though, we stopped to make pictures in Byers Canyon, which we drove through every trip from Steamboat Springs.\u00a0 It literally took my breath away the first time we drove through it &#8211; just on this little two lane state road, like it was nothing special. This whole area is amazing.<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7642.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1118\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7642-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"100_7642\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7642-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7642-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7642-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7642-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got to the park, and the weather was the complete opposite of the perfect sunshine we found on our first day there. It was rainy and there was ice on the road &#8211; and the road at the top of the Rocky Mountains is not exactly where you want to find ice. And the fog. Oh my gosh. I was driving, and this was a picture Jeff made out the window on his side as we were barely moving along the road.<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7662.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1119\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7662-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"100_7662\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7662-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7662-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7662-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7662-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the day went on, though, the weather got better, &amp; we were able to hike to the Alleuvial Fan, a very cool waterfall and surrounding area that was formed when a dam broke back in the 1980&#8217;s.\u00a0 It was another excellent day in excellent surroundings, with excellent company \ud83d\ude42<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1120\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7681-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"100_7681\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7681-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7681-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7681-690x920.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/100_7681-980x1307.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday we made a second trip to The Park, since we&#8217;d only gotten as far as the Continental Divide on our first trip.\u00a0 On the way, though, we stopped to make pictures in Byers Canyon, which we drove through every trip from Steamboat Springs.\u00a0 It literally took my breath away the first time we drove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}