{"id":6321,"date":"2013-12-27T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:15:09","slug":"man-trip-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2013\/12\/27\/man-trip-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Trip 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audrey has dubbed the annual post-Christmas road-trip the “man-trip”, and this year’s adventure started off in much the same way as last year’s<\/a>: a visit to the Cosumnes River Preserve<\/a> followed by a sunrise trip to the Merced National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>. The Pacific Flyway is busy this time of year, and it’s invigorating for the soul to stand on the edge of a wetland while tens of thousands of ducks, geese and cranes are calling out.<\/p>\n

A big part of the fun of these trips is that I generally have no idea where I’m going to end up, and while the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest<\/a> was considered, the closure of Tioga Pass sent me in the opposite direction, and it looks like I may be spending some time roaming the Carrizo Plain<\/a>. The area became a national monument in 2001, but shockingly since my road atlas is out-of-date it’s a green dot within California that I’ve somehow never visited, an oversight that will hopefully be corrected tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

Great blue heron at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge. He sat in the water thirty feet away so long as I stayed in my car, but the second the door opened he was gone.<\/div>\n

\"Sandhill<\/p>\n

Sandhill cranes at sunrise. The one on the left is bad at following.<\/div>\n

\"Killdeer\"<\/p>\n

Killdeer. After the heron experience I didn’t tempt fate by even thinking about exiting my vehicle.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audrey has dubbed the annual post-Christmas road-trip the “man-trip”, and this year’s adventure started off in much the same way as last year’s: a visit to the Cosumnes River Preserve followed by a sunrise trip to the Merced National Wildlife Refuge. The Pacific Flyway is busy this time of year, and it’s invigorating for the … Continue reading “Man Trip 2013”<\/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":[31,30],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-man-trip","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","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=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9007,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/9007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}