{"id":1553,"date":"2011-01-14T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2012-05-24T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:10:26","slug":"poo-poo-point-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"Poo Poo Point, January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poo Poo Point<br \/>\nDate:<\/strong> January 14, 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a03 out of 10<br \/>\n<strong>Distance:<\/strong> 3.2 miles roundtrip<br \/>\n<strong>Elevation Gain:<\/strong> 1,650 feet<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a01.5 to\u00c2\u00a02 hours<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Issaquah, Washington<br \/>\n<strong>Users Group:<\/strong> Hikers &amp; Dogs Only<br \/>\n<strong>Permits:<\/strong> No Permits Required<br \/>\n<strong>Trail Conditions:<\/strong> Wet, with light rain at times.<br \/>\n<strong>Hiking with:<\/strong> Dr. Robert 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Rainier area where the elevation is much higher and got out of our car in snow, but I was just coming off of a cold and didn&#8217;t feel like a long drive. \u00c2\u00a0Besides the increased avalanche danger, starting off in rain during a long snowshoe scramble is just dreadful.\u00c2\u00a0 My good friend, Dr. Robert McElroy and I decided on a simple, vigorous hike&#8230;.and something close to home.\u00c2\u00a0 We both drove to the Poo Poo Point trailhead and it was still dark yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I hopped in Rob&#8217;s car to check out his new Android phone until we could see a little light.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I started off with a jacket due to the light rain, but within 5 minutes of the hike I was already stowing it.\u00c2\u00a0 We made it to the top in about 30 minutes and took a small break for food and photo opp.\u00c2\u00a0 Near the top, there are some steep short-cuts Rob was taking and my heart rate hit 173&#8230;.felt like 190 though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poo Poo Point Date: January 14, 2011 Difficulty:\u00c2\u00a03 out of 10 Distance: 3.2 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 1,650 feet Time:\u00c2\u00a01.5 to\u00c2\u00a02 hours Location: Issaquah, Washington Users Group: Hikers &amp; Dogs Only Permits: No Permits Required Trail Conditions: Wet, with light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=1553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,108,106,29],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easy-hikes","tag-dr-robert-mcelroy","tag-issaquah","tag-poo-poo-point","tag-robert-mcelroy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jXSd-p3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}