{"id":3441,"date":"2009-07-27T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:06:34","slug":"echo-lake-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/07\/echo-lake-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo Lake morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul09\/EL3032Lot.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul09\/EL3032Lot.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several fishing access\/day use spots around Echo Lake.  Karl and I found a new one, on the way to the old one and it has become our favorite.  Although fishermen and water skiers use it weekday mornings, we have been the only walker-putzers.<\/p>\n<p>Echo Lake has many coves, inlets and small islands.  From the parking lot, a trail follows the edge of the inlet by this particular spot.  There are some short loops into the woods in a few places.  In the morning it is shady most of the way around.<\/p>\n<p>Also, very quiet.  The skiers and fishermen take off for other spots.  <\/p>\n<p>Our normal mountain view loop from home has been too hot for a black dog with a heavy coat and now the neighbors are in residence for a few weeks so we have had to be a bit more inventive for our walks.  In &#8220;it&#8217;s all relative&#8221; world, it is hot.  And courtesy of several thunderstorms, it is also humid.  Yes, I&#8217;m fairly sure someone from the southeast might think it quite comfortable here :)! <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul09\/EL3099A.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul09\/EL3099AW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just around the bend to the left is the parking area.  At the end of the point on the right is where the following photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul09\/EL3096Karl.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul09\/EL3096KarlW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are benefits to walking along the water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several fishing access\/day use spots around Echo Lake. Karl and I found a new one, on the way to the old one and it has become our favorite. Although fishermen and water skiers use it weekday mornings, we have been the only walker-putzers. Echo Lake has many coves, inlets and small islands. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22184,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/22184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}