{"id":2654,"date":"2014-08-12T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migrate.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2019-11-28T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T19:26:19","slug":"hurricane-ridge-obstruction-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/hurricane-ridge-obstruction-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ridge and Obstruction Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"NPS page for Hurricane Ridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/olym\/planyourvisit\/visiting-hurricane-ridge.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hurricane Ridge<\/a> at times lives up to its name with strong winds and even summer snows. However&nbsp;our visit to this mountainous area of Washington&#8217;s Olympic National Park featured crystal clear and calm mornings. We had hoped for some&nbsp;low clouds clinging to the forest below or&nbsp;high clouds lit pink from the rising sun. I am not complaining, as the views were &nbsp;spectacular and there were&nbsp;plenty of opportunities to capture the serenity and calm of each morning. In the late afternoon,&nbsp;we went out along <a title=\"NPS page for Obstruction Point\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/olym\/planyourvisit\/obstruction-point-to-deer-park.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obstruction Point Road<\/a>, were we settled into a warmly lit alpine meadow for&nbsp;a sublime sunset.<\/p>\n<p>You will find more photos in&nbsp;my <a title=\"Olympic Peninsula photos by Ed Bacon\" href=\"http:\/\/edbacon.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Olympic-Peninsula\/G0000PSSI6tiQsP4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic Peninsula gallery<\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Ridge at times lives up to its name with strong winds and even summer snows. However&nbsp;our visit to this mountainous area of Washington&#8217;s Olympic National Park featured crystal clear and calm mornings. We had hoped for some&nbsp;low clouds clinging to the forest below or&nbsp;high clouds lit pink from the rising sun. I am not [&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,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,424],"tags":[48,583,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-2654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-landscape-photography","7":"category-olympic-peninsula","8":"tag-glacier","9":"tag-landscape","10":"tag-olympic-peninsula","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FUJv-GO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}