{"id":3040,"date":"2010-12-13T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2010-12-13T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:08:23","slug":"xc-skiing-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/xc-skiing-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"XC Skiing from Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/PC131179.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/95723-2\/PC131179.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Tracks from XC skiing from near my front porch out to the field and back.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Having <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/cross-country-xc-skis\/\">my own cross country skis<\/a> and with this weekend&#8217;s sudden snow fall frozen into hard pack I decided to see how well skiing the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&#038;ll=42.657922,-82.992021&#038;spn=0.004568,0.005525&#038;t=h&#038;z=18\">field next to my condo<\/a> would go. Two laps (roughly a mile) later and I can say that I&#8217;m now able to have an enjoyable (albeit short and flat) ski from my house. There was even sufficient moonlight to make skiing perfectly fine without a headlight.<\/p>\n<p>The snow is so firmly packed that it could be cut with a saw which allowed me to easily glide along on top of it, only occasionally sinking through recently-drifted powder. It was also deep enough that only once did I run into brush sticking through the snow and have to deviate course. Hopefully this means that the trails at Stony Creek will be open and groomed for skiing this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and the footprints next to the ski tracks? Those are from Roxie heading out to go to the bathroom and then my fetching her deposit from the snow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having my own cross country skis and with this weekend&#8217;s sudden snow fall frozen into hard pack I decided to see how well skiing the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/xc-skiing-from-home\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">XC Skiing from Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","category-weather","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}