{"id":14,"date":"2007-08-21T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/bearing-oneself\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T06:00:03","slug":"bearing-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/bearing-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing oneself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lifeblogimage\"><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgkC1R0U.jpg\" alt=\"imgkC1R0U.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>So, a trip back to Yosemite, under the ruse of doing another walk to get a better look at some big rocks, but really to catch a glimpse of a big bear\/other such dangerous wildlife. The first informaion sign was promising, warning of mountain lions, and how children should be kept close by, and if one attacks, attack back (We weren&#8217;t sure if that meant biting it, but we were prepared). Then turning the corner, crowd were all staring off to the side, it turned out to be a bear! Actually, it didn&#8217;t look that ferocious, it just ignored the people staring and just carried on foraging. The rest of the walk was pretty uneventful after that, no lions, just a lot of squirrels (frightening things making noises a lot like bears&#8230;), until the end where we saw another bear and cub. Interesting how they were all near the campsite we passed, glad I&#8217;m not camping there! Cat &#8211; does that beat your bear sightings? Yours seemed a bit closer though, not the bigfoot style picture we took!<br \/>\nThen to the Tioga pass, the back door to Yosemite. The 40 mile road is closed through the winter due to snow, hard to believe when you&#8217;re in the valley roasting at 90 degrees. It could be any other main road through a forest, but then you whizz past the sign that marks 9000 feet, that&#8217;s well over twice the height of Ben Nevis!<br \/>\nAndy &#8211; just had another Jack in the Box, mmm! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a trip back to Yosemite, under the ruse of doing another walk to get a better look at some big rocks, but really to catch a glimpse of a big bear\/other such dangerous wildlife. The first informaion sign was promising, warning of mountain lions, and how children should be kept close by, and if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/bearing-oneself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bearing oneself&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}