{"id":811,"date":"2017-05-09T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=811"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:43:46","slug":"huntington-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Huntington Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grad school gang got back together again for some camping, hiking, and hot springs fun in October 2015. There were some cold nights and some pretty sad views of the drought impacts on Huntington Lake, but warm and sunny times with friends. The lake is nestled in the Sierra National Forest, south of the Kaiser Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-12.11.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-12.11.08.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-12.11.08-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-12.11.08-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em>Looking south towards the eastern edge of Huntington Lake<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-me-g-huntington-lake-animation.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"730\" \/><em>Matching our autumnal experience of the bare lake bed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We hiked up to College Rock on the north side of the lake, about a 5 mile R\/T. The rock took some tricky scrambles to get up to, and it sure was windy at the top! We could see some storms hit the other peaks and a bit of snow, so we booked it downhill after that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-13.34.25-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-13.34.25.jpg 768w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2015-10-04-13.34.25-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><em>Hiking to College Rock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not pictured: a dreamy evening stroll around the dry lake bed, attempts to cross little rivulets using wood and rocks, trekking to Mono Hot Springs for some warm baths (with little red worms), boys skipping rocks and spending much time trying to jump and balance on a tall tree stump :)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grad school gang got back together again for some camping, hiking, and hot springs fun in October 2015. There were some cold nights and some pretty sad views of the drought impacts on Huntington Lake, but warm and sunny times with friends. The lake is nestled in the Sierra National Forest, south of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}