{"id":15308,"date":"2026-02-03T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:14:03","slug":"conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve been cross-country skiing a few times. Saturday, it took us about 2 hours to ski the Witches&#8217; Hole Loop in Acadia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We entered from Duck Brook Bridge. It was well-traveled, but conditions were excellent. Parts of us were cold when we started out, but we warmed up by the end. Next time we go, maybe I&#8217;ll carry a backpack with a pad to sit on and a thermos of something warm to drink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0660-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15307\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0660-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0660-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0660.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Duck Brook Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was heartening to see a message to ICE in the snow covering the wall of the Duck Brook Bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0661-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15306\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0661-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0661-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0661.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Message to ICE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been cross-country skiing a few times. Saturday, it took us about 2 hours to ski the Witches&#8217; Hole Loop in Acadia. We entered from Duck Brook Bridge. It was well-traveled, but conditions were&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_0660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions\/15311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}