{"id":1004,"date":"2011-01-03T19:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2011-01-03T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T01:38:30","slug":"back-to-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2011\/01\/03\/back-to-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a ski after work today.\u00a0 There was a lot of snow on the trail.\u00a0 at times it was above my knee.\u00a0 Im guessing it averaged about a foot and a half of new snow.\u00a0 This caused the skiing to be slow and more of a walk than a glide.\u00a0 It was great to be out in the fresh air and watch the sun setting behind the trees.\u00a0 As I was skiing along I flushed a grouse that had been bedded down underneath the snow.\u00a0 There wasn&#8217;t really a trace of it being there, and as I skied up onto where it was hiding, it exploded out of the snow leaving a perfect set of wing prints in the snow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2011\/01\/IMG_0452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2011\/01\/IMG_0452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a really cool app on my iPhone called RunKeeper.\u00a0 It kept stats on my progress including distance traveled and average speed.\u00a0 Every five minutes it would announce the duration of my ski in both time and distance and then let me know what my average speed was.\u00a0 On the way out I was averaging 37 minute miles and by the time I got back to the car the average was down to 27 minute miles.\u00a0 By no means was this a quick ski.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see what I get to for a speed once the trail is nicely broken in.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8221;s how my fuzzy face fared from the frosty frigidness.\u00a0 (like my use of appropriate f words?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2011\/01\/IMG_0458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1006\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2011\/01\/IMG_0458.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a ski after work today.\u00a0 There was a lot of snow on the trail.\u00a0 at times it was above my knee.\u00a0 Im guessing it averaged about a foot and a half of new snow.\u00a0 This caused the skiing to be slow and more of a walk than a glide.\u00a0 It was great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[93,97,149],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter","tag-frost","tag-grouse","tag-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}