{"id":2424,"date":"2019-01-12T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2019-06-19T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:43:11","slug":"being-a-parent-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/being-a-parent-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a parent is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This showed up on my facebook feed as something I&#8217;d like to share from the past. Two years ago our kids skinned up to 10,000 feet on Mt. Rainier where there is a climbers high camp called Muir. In good weather it is a fairly casual day of backcountry skiing&#8230;assuming you are in top notch shape.<\/p>\n<p>But Mt. Rainier has a bad habit of making it&#8217;s own weather, which means you can be traveling to or from Muir and bad things can happen. For example clouds can roll in from nowhere and you are suddenly in a white out with zero visibility. Or the winds can come up and turn the snow to ice&#8230;at which point you will wish desperately for crampons and an ice ax. There are also large cravasses if you ski too far to left or right&#8230;so map and compass navigation skills can be a life saver. In a worse case scenario you may have to dig a snow cave and spend a night waiting out a sudden storm&#8230;though one can usually see those coming on the weather forecast. If that happens, you&#8217;d better have a thick puffy coat in your pack.<\/p>\n<p>When I posted this photo I had been working, but Sue sent me a text saying they were overdue by a couple hours. Ideally you get back from Muir before dusk. But she said Clint&#8217;s blue car was still sitting their in the parking lot. You can see it on the right. That got me worried and I started auto refreshing the web cam. As you can tell from the comments, we raised a couple kids who like adventures. I guess this is payback from when we used to make my mom nervous when Sue and I were climbing mountains&#8230;in the winter&#8230;miles and miles from the car.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa and I tried to get to Muir a couple months ago but turned back when we hit a white out at 8500 feet. I hope to do it this year&#8230;assuming our politicians ever re-open the government.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2425\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"single_photoswipe\" href=\"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017.jpg\" data-size=\"3668x1670\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2425\" class=\"wp-image-2425\" src=\"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017-659x300.jpg\" alt=\"Our kids go to Muir\" width=\"400\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017-659x300.jpg 659w, https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/webcam-lisa-clint-2017-1800x820.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our kids go to Muir together<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This showed up on my facebook feed as something I&#8217;d like to share from the past. Two years ago our kids skinned up to 10,000 feet on Mt. Rainier where there is a climbers high camp called Muir. In good weather it is a fairly casual day of backcountry skiing&#8230;assuming you are in top notch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1],"tags":[216,214,215,217],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backpacking","category-blog","tag-mt-rainier","tag-parenting","tag-raising-kids","tag-skiing-to-muir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}