{"id":998,"date":"2015-01-27T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/?p=998"},"modified":"2015-01-27T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:23:54","slug":"a-trip-up-the-mountain-of-the-great-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/2015\/01\/27\/a-trip-up-the-mountain-of-the-great-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip Up the Mountain of the Great Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Great Pond Mountain<\/p>\n<p>Date: January 24, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Trip Difficulty (1-5): 2.2<\/p>\n<p>Trip Length: Day trip<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday a group of trippers braved the snowy roads and the icy trails to hike the mountain of the Great Pond near Orland, Maine. \u00a0Unfazed by an oncoming storm, the group dominated the hike up the mountain and reached the top in record time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"View from summit\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-1024x493.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-1536x739.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-2048x985.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-1200x577.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/View-from-summit-1980x952.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summit provided the group with some great views and lots of smiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/At-the-summit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2015\/01\/At-the-summit-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"At the summit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The way back down the mountain brought about many more challenges than the way up, but along with that came a lot of fun. \u00a0The group was faced with trails covered in ice, and no obvious way down the mountain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Icy-trail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2015\/01\/Icy-trail-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Icy trail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Icy-trail-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Icy-trail.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the group made the best of the situation and saw a chance to get some solid buttsliding in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Maddi-buttsliding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2015\/01\/Maddi-buttsliding-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maddi buttsliding\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Maddi-buttsliding-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Maddi-buttsliding.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our fearless leaders led the way down treacherous terrain and back to the cars to brave the snowy roads home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Gregory-crossing-the-ice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2015\/01\/Gregory-crossing-the-ice-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory crossing the ice\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Gregory-crossing-the-ice-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Gregory-crossing-the-ice.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Snowy-icy-road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2015\/01\/Snowy-icy-road-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy icy road\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Snowy-icy-road-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Snowy-icy-road-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Snowy-icy-road-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/files\/2015\/01\/Snowy-icy-road.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of microspikes (that were all being used by John and Hannah&#8217;s trip), no serious injuries were suffered, even though everyone did fall at least once. That did not prevent our intrepid group from having an amazing day on the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Great Pond Mountain Date: January 24, 2015 Trip Difficulty (1-5): 2.2 Trip Length: Day trip &nbsp; This Saturday a group of trippers braved the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268663],"tags":[563400,563402,563407,563408,114028,563417,563426,68755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/outingclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}