{"id":1302,"date":"2015-09-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2015\/09\/23\/mirror-lake-flashbacks"},"modified":"2020-05-16T05:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T12:17:31","slug":"mirror-lake-flashbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Lake flashbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\">The frost is covering everything in the early morning as Dad tries to get a fire started.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>&#8220;Stay close you two, as Sasquatch has been spotted up here&#8230;.&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">I grabbed my little brothers hand tightly as we look for monsters. I was five years old.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/58aff-img_1159.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/58aff-img_1159.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">I use my last twenty dollars to buy beer and worms. I need to catch fish since it is still a week until payday. I make my way around the Mirror Lake trail until I find a secluded spot to cast my line. The fish were small but plentiful.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/d9548-img_1171.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/d9548-img_1171.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">We hike along the lake trail, exploring the streams and meadows. I find a fish in a shallow stream, and catch it with my bare hands. We build a mighty bon fire and tell stories deep into the dark night.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">The next morning I awaken to a clear head and a life ahead of me that can go in any direction I choose.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/c0c45-img_1173.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/c0c45-img_1173.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">I am caught in a flood of memories as I walk the entirety of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trails.com\/list_8627_hiking-around-mirror-lake-utah.html\">Mirror Lake trail<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frost is covering everything in the early morning as Dad tries to get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowqprcCw:productID":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7315],"tags":[79089,989051,126535,244595,1519889],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","tag-alone","tag-mirror-lake","tag-outdoor-adventures","tag-the-countdown","tag-uintas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/d9548-img_1171.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99I7P-l0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}