{"id":93882,"date":"2012-08-01T00:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/93882\/return-ice-caves-lake-22-tour-djoko\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T00:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:49:40","slug":"return-ice-caves-lake-22-tour-djoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/93882\/return-ice-caves-lake-22-tour-djoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Return To The Ice Caves via Lake 22! (Tour d&#8217;Joko)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">Because my blog readers (both of you), can&#8217;t get enough videos of me tromping through the woods&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">I really love the Cascade Mountains!\u00a0 From exploring their early history as a center for mining of dish-washing powder, to finding new, yet familiar places, I can\u2019t imagine mountains offering a better variety of rugged beauty, geological interest, verdant foliage and hospitable hiking.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">I went out on Monday on a return visit to the Ice Caves of the northern Cascades.\u00a0 When I was last there four years ago, a massive storm the winter before had covered the trail with so much blowdown, that I was turned back!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">Given that the trail to the caves was merely one mile, not much of a challenge, I decided first to hike to a place with the rather un-inspiring name: Lake Twenty-Two.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">I saw some surprising things on my hike.\u00a0 First off this sign:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i160.photobucket.com\/albums\/t178\/jokolondo\/reduce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">It\u2019s a sentence fragment.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t cut anything out of the photo. <strong>What is it trying to say?!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\nThen, there was the pika.\u00a0 Remember I used this creature in one of the \u201cname that animal\u201d blogs?\u00a0 It was quite a thrill to see one in real life.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i160.photobucket.com\/albums\/t178\/jokolondo\/Pika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">This guy is of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Pika\" target=\"_blank\">American Pika<\/a> species.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">Enjoy!<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<object><\/object><br \/>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because my blog readers (both of you), can&#8217;t get enough videos of me tromping through the woods&#8230; I really love the Cascade Mountains!\u00a0 From exploring their early history as a center for mining of dish-washing powder, to finding new, yet familiar places, I can\u2019t imagine mountains offering a better variety of rugged beauty, geological interest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,837,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nature-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93882","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=93882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}