{"id":692,"date":"2011-07-11T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-08-11T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:11:23","slug":"river-rushing-at-calypso-cascades-in-wild-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/river-rushing-at-calypso-cascades-in-wild-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"River rushing at Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some photos of a recent hike to Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  This is a beautiful hike along the Saint Vrain river.  Not a lot of vistas but a beautiful setting and this time of year abundant water.  The warm pine smell was just amazing and my favorite memory of this hike.  I looked the entire way for orchids and was rewarded right before the falls with many clusters of these delicate flowers.  We were also rewarded by meeting a huge family of Ptarmigan.  This hike is 3.6 miles round trip with slight elevation gain.  The parking lot is small so arrive early.  Enjoy!  See you on the trail!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7GzHxDIKRY4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7GzHxDIKRY4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 448px\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Pair of Orchids\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lorismith.biz\/gallery\/var\/resizes\/blog_photos\/IMG_4932.JPG?m=1310101118\" alt=\"Pair of Calypso Orchids\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pair of Calypso Orchids<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/51If9haeErk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/51If9haeErk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 448px\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"North Saint Vrain River\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lorismith.biz\/gallery\/var\/resizes\/blog_photos\/IMG_4929.JPG?m=1310101439\" alt=\"North Saint Vrain River\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Saint Vrain River Wild Basin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0ajH7uvEaN4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0ajH7uvEaN4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some photos of a recent hike to Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. This is a beautiful hike along the Saint Vrain river. Not a lot of vistas but a beautiful setting and this time of year abundant water. The warm pine smell was just amazing and my favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,244,46,10,270,31,18,14,45],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","tag-activities","tag-calypso-cascades","tag-colorado","tag-estes-park","tag-hiking","tag-rmnp","tag-rocky-mountain-national-park","tag-scenery","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}