{"id":495,"date":"2005-02-24T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/02\/24\/lafayette-california-20\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:23:37","slug":"lafayette-california-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/02\/24\/lafayette-california-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/journal\/tag\/alaska\/\">Alaska<\/a> is my favorite state for a number of reasons, one of which is that the people up there are a little&#8230; I guess <i>different<\/i> would be putting it mildly.  Anyhow, the Alaskan Alpine Club decided that ice climbing would be more convenient if there was a large ice tower close to Fairbanks, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaalpineclub.org\/IceWall\/04-05IceWall1.html\">they are building their own<\/a>.  At last measurement they were at 136 feet, which is taller than the tallest building in Fairbanks.  A red strobe was added to the top to alert aircraft, and still it grows.<\/p>\n<p>Two money quotes (and there are many):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;If I&#8217;d ah knowed it were gonna get this high, I would not have been so impressed back when it was not so high.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We found some bones, feathers, a climber&#8217;s helmet and part of an airplane wing at the bottom of the ice. Tell no one.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaalpineclub.org\/IceWall\/04-05IceWall3.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Winter diversions in Fairbanks\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaalpineclub.org\/Images\/Ice%20Wall%2004-05\/ice11Feb05-2.jpg\" width=\"302\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Photo taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaalpineclub.org\/\">http:\/\/www.alaskaalpineclub.org\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska is my favorite state for a number of reasons, one of which is that the people up there are a little&#8230; I guess different would be putting it mildly. Anyhow, the Alaskan Alpine Club decided that ice climbing would be more convenient if there was a large ice tower close to Fairbanks, so they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/02\/24\/lafayette-california-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lafayette, California&#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":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}