{"id":572,"date":"2010-05-27T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T05:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2010-05-27T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T05:15:00","slug":"hiking-to-lake-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Hiking to Lake 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-580\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=580\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-580 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7534\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7534-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7534-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7534-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh wow, this happened a while ago.\u00a0 In fact, I think it was the last time I&#8217;ve hiked&#8230;hmm.\u00a0 We must remedy this.\u00a0 Soon.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s been raining, and there&#8217;ve been progress reports, and&#8230;and&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 Anyways, we went up the Mountain Loop Highway with B, E and little baby S\u00a0a few weeks ago. The trail was snow free until the last 1\/2 mile or so.\u00a0 We brought the snowshoes anyways though, because Tom&#8217;s training to climb Mt. Baker in a few weeks, and &#8220;needed the weight&#8221;.\u00a0 Ah, my husband the pack mule.\u00a0 The trail up was pleasant with several nice waterfalls along the way and some big, fuzzy trees; a Northwest speciality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-579\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-579\" title=\"IMG_7590\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7590-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7590-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7590-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7590.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-573\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=573\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-573\" title=\"IMG_9943\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9943-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9943-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9943-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9943.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-576\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-576\" title=\"IMG_9964\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9964-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9964-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9964-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9964.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-574\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-574\" title=\"IMG_9953\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9953-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9953-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9953-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_9953.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we got to the lake, it was still mostly frozen and the ice was making these beautiful swirly patterns where it was starting to melt.\u00a0 Lake 22 sits in a basin right behind Mt. Pilchuck, and the view of the mountain was quite stunning.\u00a0 It was also VERY bright at the lake, and I found it very difficult to be without my sunglasses for even long enough to take photos.\u00a0 Tom, however, forgot his sunglasses, so he took more photos.\u00a0 And they turned out better.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-578\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-578 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7572\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7572-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7572-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7572-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_7572.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lake 22 was my first adventure on the Mountain Loop Highway, and we will definitly be back soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wow, this happened a while ago.\u00a0 In fact, I think it was the last time I&#8217;ve hiked&#8230;hmm.\u00a0 We must remedy this.\u00a0 Soon.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=572\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hiking to Lake 22<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-hiking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}