{"id":1906,"date":"2017-04-23T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:32:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:32:50","slug":"prairie-bluff-west-castle-april-22-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/prairie-bluff-west-castle-april-22-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Bluff, East Castle April 22, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dave-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dave-5-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Dave 5\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dave-5-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dave-5-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dave-5-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dave-5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plan C after finding 5 to 20 cm of new snow<\/p>\n<p>I like Dave&#8217;s summary from FB:\u00a0<em>This was a &#8220;plan C&#8221; and ended up being a great half-day wander after the twin irritations of encountering a woman driving in reverse at full speed on the center lane of MacLeod Trail south as we left town(she missed her off ramp!), and me accidentally puncturing a bear spray cartridge with my ice ax as we packed up to go at the trailhead. We chose this objective in lieu of a scramble due to about 5-20 cms of new snow that had blanketed the East Castle region the previous evening. (<\/em>Dave could have chucked his axe towards his bear spray a 1000 times and never get it to hit the can let alone puncture the can &#8211; fortunately we worked things out and had a great day.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny for most of trip(some sunburns), very calm and no ticks.<\/p>\n<p>8 Km RT, 730 m and 4 hrs 23 min including summit time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billkerr.zenfolio.com\/p717686520\">Pics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan C after finding 5 to 20 cm of new snow I like Dave&#8217;s summary from FB:\u00a0This was a &#8220;plan C&#8221; and ended up being a great half-day wander after the twin irritations of encountering a woman driving in reverse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/prairie-bluff-west-castle-april-22-2017\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8,151],"tags":[45,14,154,119,37,17,31],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hike","category-scramble","category-winter-scrambke","tag-alberta","tag-backcountry","tag-castle","tag-hike","tag-ridge","tag-rockies","tag-snow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}