{"id":2729,"date":"2009-04-01T20:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2019-04-02T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:33:22","slug":"dry-creek-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/dry-creek-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Creek Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The muddiness and wetness of winter has kept me off the hiking trails for the last three months or so. I missed it, so I was determined to go hiking on Sunday. I was dismayed as I watched the forecast deteriorate from clear and dry to cloudy with a good chance of rain. I went anyway and fortunately I didn&#8217;t get rained on until the very end of the hike.<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped to see more signs of spring out there, but maybe it&#8217;s just been too cold. This was about the only sign of spring I saw:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/3401150649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3599\/3401150649_4bfc52b2e2.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ambled up the trail, huffing and puffing (so much for the last five months of working out at the gym!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/3401954276\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3568\/3401954276_e9e2505a11.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After all that rain on Saturday, Dry Creek Falls was anything by dry. It was gushing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/3401150743\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3584\/3401150743_f06eb13852.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And let me tell you, it was COLD there. The waterfall spray was icy and quickly numbed my fingers as I tried to take pictures. Hiking back down to the junction with the trail, I scrambled down to creekside to try some shots down there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/3404692246\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3578\/3404692246_290022d489.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the way back to the car, the sun tried to make a few brief appearances, but then it vanished and the rain and hail began. I picked up the pace and made it back to the car without getting too wet. I am really looking forward to drier and more colorful (wildflowers!) hiking conditions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The muddiness and wetness of winter has kept me off the hiking trails for the last three months or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/dry-creek-falls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dry Creek Falls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}