{"id":2654,"date":"2021-01-12T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2021-01-12T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:19:19","slug":"cold-settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2021\/01\/12\/cold-settlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2655 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065836_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065836_01.jpg 640w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065836_01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When there&#8217;s snow on the ground they will close the park. Which is why we set out to sneak into the old settlers Trail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2656 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065845_01-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065845_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065845_01-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065845_01-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_065845_01.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Myers and Nick preceded us. Friday they had all the wood gathered. So Saturday it was time for us to bust in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2657 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_130434689-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_130434689-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_130434689-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Kelsie on the left and Jimmy &#8220;the flying sausage&#8221; Dean on the right. We embarked in the spitting snow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2658\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_125225328-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_125225328-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_125225328-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were looking forward to seeing Frank and AJ but due to family issues neither them were able to attend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2659\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_154116741-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_154116741-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_154116741-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ballerina Britches earned his totenship badge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2660\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_205940304-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_205940304-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_205940304-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Laundry got done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2661\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_141805743-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_141805743-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_141805743-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210109_141805743-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She was warm-ish; a real trooper for being the only female in a group of alpha males. It dropped into the low twenties. But our fire was more than sufficient.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2662\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210110_094912503-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210110_094912503-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210110_094912503-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Myers woke up Saturday morning to a coyote in camp. We followed it out back to the car.<\/p>\n<p>David Snider and his son came in along with Robert Carver. Even Curt made a cameo. just a fantastic winter outing on the old settlers Trail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s snow on the ground they will close the park. Which is why we set out to sneak into the old settlers Trail. Myers and Nick preceded us. Friday they had all the wood gathered. So Saturday it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2021\/01\/12\/cold-settlers\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}