{"id":25727,"date":"2025-01-23T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/?p=25727"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:46:46","slug":"icy-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/?p=25727","title":{"rendered":"Icy Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First hike since October. Knee still hurting, worse than ever. Hoping to get a shot in about a month. Meanwhile planning to hike through it, trying various hacks.<\/p>\n

Back in my mountains after 7 weeks in purgatory, praise the lord. Missing my mom, this one’s for her. Emotionally numb, in denial. Lonely.<\/p>\n

Headed north to revisit a spectacular canyon, 500 feet lower than home. Temps hovering around freezing, clear sky, a dusting of snow on north slopes above 8,000 feet. Unusual number of small hawks swooping along the road.<\/p>\n

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Creek lined with lovely, thick ice from recent temps in teens. Much more water than I expected, runoff from sun on snow and ice higher up. Fall color lingering on fallen sycamore leaves. Magical place.<\/p>\n

Tricky creek crossings on icy rocks between frigid pools a foot deep. Trying out trekking poles in hopes they’ll help my knee – they help in creek crossings but are awkward on this rocky trail and useless and in the way in many places.<\/p>\n

Much earlier than expected, after maybe a half mile, I reach a crossing I can’t do without getting my feet and legs soaked.<\/p>\n

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Heading back, I can tell my knee’s going to hurt bad tonight.<\/p>\n

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First hike since October. Knee still hurting, worse than ever. Hoping to get a shot in about a month. Meanwhile planning to hike through it, trying various hacks. Back in my mountains after 7 weeks in purgatory, praise the lord. Missing my mom, this one’s for her. Emotionally numb, in denial. Lonely. Headed north to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,146,60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hikes","category-mineral","category-mogollon-mountains","category-southwest-new-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5809.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25763,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions\/25763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}