{"id":346,"date":"2012-09-13T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-09-13T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:38:43","slug":"jerry-begly-wilderness-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/09\/jerry-begly-wilderness-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Begly, Wilderness Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCN0471.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSCN0471\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN0471\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCN0471_thumb.jpg?resize=511%2C384\" width=\"511\" height=\"384\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This painting hangs in Alpine Bank, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. You\u2019re looking at Haggerman Peak and Snowmass Lake, in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area, near Aspen, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be a GS-4 Wilderness Ranger at Snowmass Lake. I would backpack up to the lake and camp there for 4 nights as part of my patrol. My campsite was in a \u201csecret\u201d location about 200 feet from the viewpoint of this artist.<\/p>\n<p>I used to make pudding, and keep it cold in the creek right over where that tree stump is on the left side.<\/p>\n<p>The stories of my summer at Snowmass Lake would amuse, stun, and chill you to the bone.<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of camping there with my wife, Marti, several years after working there. I caught the biggest fish of my life on that trip, and surprised Marti when she woke up to a frying pan 2 feet from her head, and a monster trout hanging out both ends of the pan.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever get to Snowmass Lake and see this view, you\u2019ll know why I think it\u2019s the most beautiful place in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This painting hangs in Alpine Bank, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. You\u2019re looking at Haggerman Peak and Snowmass Lake, in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area, near Aspen, Colorado. I used to be a GS-4 Wilderness Ranger at Snowmass Lake. I would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/09\/jerry-begly-wilderness-ranger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[1332,1336,1338,1343,1340,1341,1345,1015,1337,1333,369,1335,1344,1346,1331,1339,1342,1334,445],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-fun","tag-alpine-bank","tag-aspen-colorado","tag-backpack","tag-biggest-fish","tag-campsite","tag-creek","tag-frying-pan","tag-glenwood-springs-colorado","tag-gs4","tag-haggerman-peak","tag-jerry-begly","tag-maroon-bells-snowmass-wilderness","tag-marti","tag-most-beautiful-place-in-colorado","tag-painting","tag-patrol","tag-pudding","tag-snowmass-lake","tag-wilderness-ranger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5nY-5A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}