{"id":6054,"date":"2018-09-29T05:45:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2018-11-09T23:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T07:54:06","slug":"granite-mountain-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=6054","title":{"rendered":"Granite Mountain Hike, September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linna wanted to complete another fall color hike before the season was over and from the WTA trip reports, Granite Mountain was reaching full peak.\u00c2\u00a0 We met up with Mike Curry at the trail-head at sunrise and got an early start on the hike knowing that it was going to be a busy day on the mountain\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6especially on a beautiful fall sunny day.<\/p>\n

The reports were accurate, vibrant fall colors decorated the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 Near the pond area and the back side were abundant with thick flamboyant fall leaves.\u00c2\u00a0 We had lunch near the look-out tower huddle by some of rocks to protect us from the chilly wind.<\/p>\n

On the decent we ran into hordes of hikers seeking the same pictures we took.\u00c2\u00a0Chloe Wei, Rick Freeman and Mike Curry enjoying another hiking day.<\/p>\n

Rick Freeman & Mike Curry<\/p>\n

The colors we were seeking…..near the pond.<\/p>\n

Mike Curry, Linna Freeman and Rick Freeman loving Granite Mountain<\/p>\n

Linna Freeman overlooking Mount Rainier<\/p>\n

Mike Curry hiding from the brisk wind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linna wanted to complete another fall color hike before the season was over and from the WTA trip reports, Granite Mountain was reaching full peak.\u00c2\u00a0 We met up with Mike Curry at the trail-head at sunrise and got an early … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[398,729,156,30,671,581,667,730,731],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moderate-hikes","tag-chloe-wei","tag-fall-colors","tag-granite-mountain","tag-linna-freeman","tag-mike-curry-seattle","tag-rick-freeman-seattle","tag-rick-freeman-wander-junkie","tag-seattle","tag-shan-qiu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jXSd-1zE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","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=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}