{"id":184,"date":"2014-06-30T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-06-30T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:11:15","slug":"rainy-day-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.47.43-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-185 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.47.43-1.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-29 06.47.43-1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.47.43-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.47.43-1-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I ventured out for some more hiking, this time en route to Dobratsch, the highest peak visible from central Villach. That&#8217;s misleading &#8211; I didn&#8217;t make it all the way up, but did a solid 4 hours of steep-slope wandering, probably making it to about 1,000 meters. For comparison, the Alpine slopes we hiked in Tarvisio were about 2,500 meters. Dozens of trails snake through these mountains, and I did a lot of contemplation at each intersection to figure out how to proceed! Pretty much every trail is marked with the Austrian flag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.48.09-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-187 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.48.09-1.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-29 05.48.09-1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.48.09-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.48.09-1-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty lucky so far with no pervasive buggies, but there were definitely some persistent mosquitoes on this rainy Sunday morning\/afternoon. Did you know they can bite you through yoga pants? The rain was lukewarm and calming, and I was mostly protected by canopy. Tall pine trees were all about, making for soft ground and lovely scents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-191 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.43.481.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-29 06.43.48\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.43.481.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.43.481-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.22.09.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-192 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.22.09-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-29 05.22.09\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.22.09-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-05.22.09.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quiet trail<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.00.10.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-190 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.00.10-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-29 06.00.10\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.00.10-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-29-06.00.10.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lookout point<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ventured out for some more hiking, this time en route to Dobratsch, the highest peak visible from central Villach. That&#8217;s misleading &#8211; I didn&#8217;t make it all the way up, but did a solid 4 hours of steep-slope wandering, probably making it to about 1,000 meters. For comparison, the Alpine slopes we hiked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}