{"id":1473,"date":"2017-01-21T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:50:28","slug":"loon-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Loon Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks that Meghan gets through her job are invites to swanky resorts.\u00a0 Last week was <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1468\">Wentworth-by-the-Sea<\/a>, this week was a client inviting her to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loonmtn.com\/\">Loon Mountain Ski Resort<\/a> for a day of snow sports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1475\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-snow-encrusted-hat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1475 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-snow-encrusted-hat-222x300.png\" alt=\"meghan's snow-encrusted hat\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-snow-encrusted-hat-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-snow-encrusted-hat.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sleds kick up lots of snow, much of which winds up on the back of your head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meghan and I don&#8217;t ski, but they have more than skiing; our activity of choice was sledding.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t any ordinary sledding, though: they seem to have repurposed an old ski lift and trail.\u00a0 The sleds are snow-tubes with rails and brakes.\u00a0 You take a lift up to the top, ride down for as long as 30 seconds, and head back up.\u00a0 There were few other sledders so we had zero waiting.<\/p>\n<p>After a group lunch with the client and their other guests, the two of us decided to sight-see.\u00a0 We climbed in the car and drove up into the mountains along the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kancamagushighway.com\/\">Kancamagus Highway<\/a>.\u00a0 Despite the clouds the views were beautiful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1476\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1476\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-kancamagus-pass-overlook.png\" alt=\"kancamgus pass overlook\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-kancamagus-pass-overlook.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-kancamagus-pass-overlook-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking out from a scenic overlook just below the Kancamagus Pass (3k&#8217; elevation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1477\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1477\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-looking-back.png\" alt=\"looking back at Meghan\" width=\"600\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-looking-back.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-looking-back-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun was starting to peek out to the east, but west was still solidly clouded over. There had been snow earlier in the day, but only in these higher elevations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1480\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-clouds.png\" alt=\"disappearing mountain tops\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-clouds.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-clouds-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The low clouds meant we couldn&#8217;t see the mountain tops, as they faded into the clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks that Meghan gets through her job are invites to swanky resorts.\u00a0 Last week was Wentworth-by-the-Sea, this week was a client inviting her to the Loon Mountain Ski Resort for a day of snow sports. Meghan and I don&#8217;t ski, but they have more than skiing; our activity of choice was sledding.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loon Mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170120-white-mountains-panorama.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-nL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}