{"id":1933,"date":"2015-09-30T18:36:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:39:00","slug":"different-than-i-imagined-but-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"Different than I Imagined, but Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9291828w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1935\" src=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9291828w.jpg\" alt=\"P9291828w\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9291828w.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9291828w-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/P9291828w-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The main difference between how I imagined the North Fork Skokomish Valley (a.k.a. the Staircase area of Olympic National Park) and how it actually was is that I had imagined it as being much more broad. In fact, there really wasn&#8217;t much of a flat valley bottom at all once one got above the campground.<\/p>\n<p>It was, however, full of mile after mile of intact lowland forest, pretty much as I had imagined. It wasn&#8217;t <em>all<\/em> huge old trees (natural calamities do &#8220;reset the clock&#8221; in forests), but there still were an awful lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>I also did manage to successfully make a couple of PSK31 contacts operating portable, so chalk up another goal for the summer season as accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>The campground was surprisingly well-patronized, given that it was a weekday in late September and the water had been shut off. It&#8217;s probably just as well I didn&#8217;t even try to get a spot there last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between how I imagined the North Fork Skokomish Valley (a.k.a. the Staircase area of Olympic National Park) and how it actually was is that I had imagined it as being much more broad. In fact, there really wasn&#8217;t much of a flat valley bottom at all once one got above the campground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}