{"id":1711,"date":"2015-09-13T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:16:54","slug":"elks-and-elevation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Elks and Elevation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our time in Rocky Mountain National Park was amazing. Because it was the elk mating season, we heard the males bugling every night. It was an extremely strange sound. It sounded like a mix of a flute, a sick donkey, and a shofar, and it was very high pitched. The elk herd spent at least three days behind the campground, and we saw them almost every day. Pa and I also saw something very cool: a moose! It was standing about 30 feet away from us, eating. It didn’t seem to care at all that we were there.<\/p>\n

One day, we drove higher up, to just over 12,000 feet. We did two short hikes in the treeless alpine tundra. The only plant life was tiny ground hugging plants. There were high peaks in every direction. We saw three big horn sheep, and a bunch of big furry marmots.<\/p>\n

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We also did some very fun hikes at Rocky Mountain National Park. My favorite was one that went past a waterfall. There were a lot of people at the waterfall, but we hiked past there, and then there were almost no people. We saw a tiny adorable weasel. It was so, so, so, so, cute!!!! We had our lunch in a meadow of very tall grass along the Colorado River. We saw an otter in the water!<\/p>\n

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Our time in Rocky Mountain National Park was amazing. Because it was the elk mating season, we heard the males bugling every night. It was an extremely strange sound. It sounded like a mix of a flute, a sick donkey, and a shofar, and it was very high pitched. The elk herd spent at least … Continue reading Elks and Elevation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}