{"id":349,"date":"2010-02-06T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:30:37","slug":"zion-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/06\/zion-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday, January 3, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zion National Park is quite different from Arches and Canyonlands, but it&#8217;s just as spectacular. Maybe more so. It has more trees because the west of the mountains it catches more rain, and it sits in a steep valley with mountains on both sides and a river running through it.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived, much of the valley was still in shadow because it takes a while for the sun to climb over the top of the steep mountains. I took a modest hike up the base of one of the mountains, the Watchman, as the sunlight gradually moved down the valley.<\/p>\n<p>Later, driving up the valley, I took some pictures of a wonderful cluster of mountains called Court of the Patriarchs. On a couple hikes I saw such animals as wild turkeys and mule deer. It was quite mild at Zion, reaching around 10\u00b0C (50\u00b0F) during the day. A lot of the trails were quite icy due to the following and freezing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_352\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-352\" href=\"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/06\/zion-national-park\/court-of-the-patriarchs-zion-national-park-utah\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"size-large wp-image-352\" title=\"Court of the Patriarchs, Zion National Park, Utah\" src=\"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100103-_DSC9433_4_5_6_7bred-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"Court of the Patriarchs, Zion National Park, Utah\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100103-_DSC9433_4_5_6_7bred-600x397.jpg 600w, http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100103-_DSC9433_4_5_6_7bred-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100103-_DSC9433_4_5_6_7bred.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court of the Patriarchs, Zion National Park, Utah - Richard McGuire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Later in the afternoon as the sun was going down I took through winding road to the east through a series of long narrow tunnels through the mountains. At last I made it to Kanab, where the previous Thursday I picked up my permit for The Wave. I got a motel, and prepared to set out the next morning for The Wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 3, 2010 Zion National Park is quite different from Arches and Canyonlands, but it&#8217;s just as spectacular. Maybe more so. It has more trees because the west of the mountains it catches more rain, and it sits in a steep valley with mountains on both sides and a river running through it. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-southwest-united-states","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}