{"id":6206,"date":"2016-10-15T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2016-10-15T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:00:11","slug":"arch-and-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/arch-and-highlands\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Arch and highlands…"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nAs written at the end of the previous article, I went to discover a natural arch, one of these natural formations that always attract me much. These, called Aspen Arch, is fairly isolated. To achieve it requires first finding your way through a maze of various tracks more or less maintained and then, about 20 miles further, to hike through virgin nature on a sometimes steep mountainside.
\n 
\n 
\n1. The place I left VivaLaVida for a few hours…
\n 
\n\"_dsc2036b\"
\n 
\n 
\n2. After 3 hours hijing and some pretty climbing, I discover Aspen Arch.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2044b\"
\n 
\n 
\n3. Its about 70 feet long impress!
\n 
\n\"_dsc2043b\"
\n 
\n 
\n4. Continuing her way eastward, VLC crosses beautiful highlands.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2051_pano_b\"
\n 
\n 
\n5. Lost ranch…
\n 
\n\"_dsc2052b\"
\n 
\n 
\n6. Looks like the Altiplano sometimes, here with a salty pond…
\n 
\n\"_dsc2055_pano_b\"
\n 
\n 
\n7. The track is not very marked in places…
\n 
\n\"_dsc2057b\"
\n 
\n 
\n8. In Hartsel, small highland village…
\n 
\n\"_dsc2058b\"
\n 
\n 
\n9. Another ranch, a bit further, as VLC approach the last mountain range before the great plains, laste Rocky Mountains range eastward.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2061b\"
\n 
\n 
\n10. Not far from the road, a small group Pronghorn antelope, the last species of wild antelope in North America.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2073b\"
\n 
\n 
\n11. With some patience, I let them approach.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2082b\"
\n 
\n 
\n12. VLC sometimes serves me as a blind! \ud83d\ude09
\n 
\n\"_dsc2087b\"
\n 
\n 
\n13. Only a few miles further, a new unexpected meet: a beautiful deer that VLV hardly scares.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2089b\"
\n 
\n 
\n14. And a small band of burro, wild donkeys.
\n 
\n\"_dsc2104b\"
\n 
\n 
\n15. That day, they were more fearful than the deer, I couldn’t approach that much!
\n 
\n\"_dsc2107b\"
\n 
\n 
\nContinuation and end of my crossing of Colorado in a few days…
\n 
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  As written at the end of the previous article, I went to discover a natural arch, one of these natural formations that always attract me much. These, called Aspen Arch, is fairly isolated. To achieve it requires first finding your way through a maze of various tracks more orRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041],"tags":[1097,106,1098,1099,377,1096,438,1100,1101],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-en","tag-antelope","tag-arch","tag-aspen-arch-en","tag-burro-en","tag-colorado-en","tag-donkey","tag-elk","tag-highland","tag-pronghorn-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}