{"id":2124,"date":"2017-12-09T19:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2017-12-20T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:51:55","slug":"my-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.professorontherun.com\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"My Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For supposedly being my favorite place in the Utah County Foothills, I don&#8217;t visit the Chris Fisher Flats meadow up above Grove and Battle Creek often enough. In fact, I realized it had been over a year. Wow. I think I&#8217;m done doing the Grove-Battle loop though. Coming down Battle has some no-fun rough spots&#8230;but some pretty spots. I can&#8217;t decide. Today I opted to go up and down Grove as I heard Battle was icy. It was just magnificent up top.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1308219297\/embed\/e854f8cce5532e4ae3ff2cb92f30d78661e2dcd9\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_2125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2125\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-1024x767.jpg?resize=640%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?resize=1024%2C767&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?resize=360%2C270&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking up at North Timp from Grove Creek. The front side is almost completely bare.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2126\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2126\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2-1024x767.jpg?resize=640%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?resize=1024%2C767&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?resize=360%2C270&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ice flow over the trail. Normally by the time it gets cold enough to freeze it is usually covered with a few feet of snow I bet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2127\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3-1024x554.jpg?resize=640%2C346&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?resize=1024%2C554&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?resize=768%2C416&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?resize=499%2C270&amp;ssl=1 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Fisher Flat. Look at the inversion smog down below. Ick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For supposedly being my favorite place in the Utah County Foothills, I don&#8217;t visit the Chris Fisher Flats meadow up above Grove and Battle Creek often enough. In fact, I realized it had been over a year. Wow. I think I&#8217;m done doing the Grove-Battle loop though. Coming down Battle has some no-fun rough spots&#8230;but some pretty spots. I can&#8217;t decide. Today I opted to go up and down Grove as I heard Battle was icy. 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