{"id":3939,"date":"2011-06-06T07:55:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2013-05-14T19:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:19:49","slug":"high-in-the-mcdowells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/high-in-the-mcdowells\/","title":{"rendered":"High in the McDowells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Turkey Vulture high in the McDowell Mountains\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110606-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>With help from my favorite hiking partner, Chris, I finally made it to the highest point in the McDowell Mountains yesterday (4069ft). We started at 4:45am from the North Access and followed a climber&#8217;s trail through Mesquite Canyon, up over the 3 Svens, past Marcus Landslide and then up to East End. There&#8217;s a Geo cache hidden in the rocks up there with an &#8220;I made it&#8221; book and I was stoked to be able to add my name \ud83d\ude42 Rather than go back the way we came, we then followed another climber&#8217;s route over to the Tom&#8217;s Thumb trail which took us back to the trail head. Four hours and a little more than 1500 ft elevation gain&#8230;.it was awesome!<\/p>\n<p>We saw deer and the remains of a deer which reminded us there are Mountain Lions up there but we didn&#8217;t see one (I was disappointed!). We did, however, see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/turkey_vulture\/id\" target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a><\/strong> which was pretty cool too. We had stopped to look at the view and after a few minutes, I did what a good photographer should always do and that is to turn around and shoot in the other direction too. This is what I saw. I was so excited I could hardly hold my camera still and wished I could have stayed to see him take off.<\/p>\n<p>Sigma 18-250mm OS (perfect lens for long hikes), ISO 400, f\/8, 1\/640th sec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With help from my favorite hiking partner, Chris, I finally made it to the highest point in the McDowell Mountains yesterday (4069ft). We started at 4:45am from the North Access and followed a climber&#8217;s trail through Mesquite Canyon, up over the 3 Svens, past Marcus Landslide and then up to East End. There&#8217;s a Geo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,64,28,58,57],"tags":[484,713,988,60,184,712],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}