{"id":3256,"date":"2011-09-11T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T01:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2017-06-08T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:07:31","slug":"central-idaho-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/09\/11\/central-idaho-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Idaho Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time I visit here, rather than spending a chilly evening sleeping in a car an advance reservation will definitely be made for a room in the extraordinarily cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfishlake.com\/\">Redfish Lake Lodge<\/a>, which was built out of logs in 1929 and doesn&#8217;t appear to have changed much since then.  Today&#8217;s adventures included hot coffee, hot bacon, and hot French toast at the lodge (did I mention they were all <i>hot<\/i>?) and some bald eagle watching at the lake.  That was followed by a leisurely drive south through the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and then back towards Boise, much of it with the car&#8217;s heater running on high in an effort to de-thaw from last night&#8217;s refrigeration.  Mountain lakes, jagged peaks, and the occasional pronghorn made for a nice journey that was only slightly spoiled by the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/recap?gameId=310911005\">not-unexpected result<\/a> of the Browns&#8217; season opener.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/0370-ryan-sawtooth-mountains.JPG\" width=\"580\" height=\"420\" alt=\"Ryan in the Sawtooth Mountains\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">This is what I look when 1) I&#8217;m happy, 2) I&#8217;m in a pretty place, 3) I need a shower, and 4) it&#8217;s 6:45AM and I spent the night sleeping in the chilly driver&#8217;s seat of a rented Dodge Charger.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time I visit here, rather than spending a chilly evening sleeping in a car an advance reservation will definitely be made for a room in the extraordinarily cool Redfish Lake Lodge, which was built out of logs in 1929 and doesn&#8217;t appear to have changed much since then. Today&#8217;s adventures included hot coffee, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/09\/11\/central-idaho-part-two\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Central Idaho Part Two&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-idaho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11067,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/11067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}