{"id":91789,"date":"2012-06-30T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91789\/unbearable-whiteness-seeing-yellowstone-11\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:29:50","slug":"unbearable-whiteness-seeing-yellowstone-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91789\/unbearable-whiteness-seeing-yellowstone-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The UnBEARable Whiteness I&#8217;m Seeing: Yellowstone 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">As I sat in my van on the edge of Yellowstone Lake, with white-out conditions blanketing the park with snow, I was kinda bummed out.\u00a0 My ongoing quest to see definitive signs of the caldera was being thwarted.\u00a0 Already that morning, I had to bypass without seeing one of the area\u2019s most famous sites: The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.\u00a0 The road to Canyon\u2019s prime viewing sites had not yet been snow plowed, and even then, visibility was down to dozens of feet.\u00a0 I looked out on the water and could not see the other shore.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">Then\u2026 the sun came out.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Part Eleven of the Tour d\u2019Joko &#8211; Yellowstone Edition.<\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Some video notes:<\/p>\n<p>Okay, who out there caught the play-on-words of this episode\u2019s title \u201cThe UnBEARable Whiteness I\u2019m Seeing\u201d?\u00a0 What am I referencing?<\/p>\n<p>Fallen timber can be quite slippery when covered with fresh snow.\u00a0 I really fell hard on my hike; I\u2019m lucky nothing broke.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I really had an itchy trigger finger when it came to my borrowed bottle of bear spray.\u00a0 Almost used it on a particularly scary looking squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>Honey badger don\u2019t care?\u00a0 Bison!\u00a0 Now Bison, he don\u2019t care!<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat in my van on the edge of Yellowstone Lake, with white-out conditions blanketing the park with snow, I was kinda bummed out.\u00a0 My ongoing quest to see definitive signs of the caldera was being thwarted.\u00a0 Already that morning, I had to bypass without seeing one of the area\u2019s most famous sites: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,837,25],"tags":[5254],"class_list":["post-91789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-nature-2","category-world","tag-yellowstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}