{"id":813,"date":"2012-09-18T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2012-09-18T20:27:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:27:59","slug":"san-juan-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Southwest corner of the state of Colorado are the San Juan Mountains.\u00a0 We were headed down this way for my husband to run the Hardrock 100.\u00a0 These are dramatic and beautiful mountains with wildflowers like I have never seen.\u00a0 We stayed in Silverton prior to the race.\u00a0 One day a group of us wanted to do a &#8220;short&#8221; hike (short for ultra runners) so we hiked to Ice Lake so Alan and the other runners could see the race course.\u00a0 Here are some photos of our day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1802\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-814\" title=\"San Juan Vistas\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1802-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1802-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1802-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Juan Vistas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1885\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-815 \" title=\"Ice Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1885-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1885-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1885-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Lake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1900\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-843\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-843\" title=\"IMG_1900\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1900-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1900-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1900-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan with Ice Lake Behind Him<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1891-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-818\" title=\"Wildflowers\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_18911-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_18911-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_18911-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1866\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-846\" title=\"IMG_1866\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1866-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Trail Running\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1866-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1866-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trail Running<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1905-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-819\" title=\"Island Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_19051-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_19051-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_19051-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Island Lake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 225px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1914\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-820\" title=\"Marsh Marigolds\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1914-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1914-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1914-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsh Marigolds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1834\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842\" title=\"Wildflowers\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1834-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1834-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1834-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_1931\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-823\" title=\"Hardrock 100 trail marker\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1931-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1931-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1931-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hardrock 100 trail marker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By the way, my husband did finish his Hardrock 100 race. More info about that later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/san-juan-mountains\/img_2105\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-851\" title=\"IMG_2105\" src=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2105-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"He finished!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2105-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2105-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Finished Hardrock!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Southwest corner of the state of Colorado are the San Juan Mountains.\u00a0 We were headed down this way for my husband to run the Hardrock 100.\u00a0 These are dramatic and beautiful mountains with wildflowers like I have never seen.\u00a0 We stayed in Silverton prior to the race.\u00a0 One day a group of us [&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":[266,46,264,270,80,263,14,265,44],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","tag-alan-smith","tag-colorado","tag-hardrock-100","tag-hiking","tag-running","tag-san-jaun-mountains","tag-scenery","tag-silverton","tag-summer-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}