{"id":2641,"date":"2010-10-05T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2012-02-04T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:59:32","slug":"wild-west-4-pinedale-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/wild-west-4-pinedale-wyoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild West #4: Pinedale, Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sylvia and I spent about a week in Pinedale, Wyoming, with our daughter Isabel <\/a>. Isabel took us on what I came to call a \u201cdeath march\u201d\u009d every day\u2026meaning that it was more exercise than we\u2019re used to, particularly in the mile-high elevation of Pinedale. But I loved it.<\/p>\n

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We saw an osprey in his or her nest near Half Moon Lake. The big fish hawk rose up and circled, making skirling chirps.<\/p>\n

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My favorite hike near Pinedale leads to the so-called \u201cSacred Rim,\u201d\u009d a cliff at an elevation of nearly two miles with a sheer drop of perhaps a mile. Sitting on the edge of the cliff, I began getting some serious worries about being unwillingly sucked down by the great volume of empty space, and I moved back.<\/p>\n

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Pinedale was having a lot of growth a few years ago, due to the boom in natural gas drilling. That\u2019s died down a bit, leaving, for instance, this blank real-estate developer\u2019s sign. It looks like installation art, an abstract painting.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a guy right outside the city limits who keeps a large number of abandoned vehicles in his yard. I like this one thirties-style car of his.<\/p>\n

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One day we went canoeing at the deserted Willow Lake near Pinedale, and picnicked on a tiny spit of sand halfway down the lake.<\/p>\n

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As usual, I was happy to look at the gnarly shapes of roots, water, rocks, clouds, and trees. It opens up my head to be so continuously away from the clamor of civilization. <\/p>\n

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We got back in the canoe soon after we noticed that there were grizzly-bear footprints on the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sylvia and I spent about a week in Pinedale, Wyoming, with our daughter Isabel . Isabel took us on what I came to call a \u201cdeath march\u201d\u009d every day\u2026meaning that it was more exercise than we\u2019re used to, particularly in the mile-high elevation of Pinedale. But I loved it. We saw an osprey in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}