{"id":53577,"date":"2016-03-03T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_mark_lawrence_finding_elevation_in_the_sierra_nevadas\/"},"modified":"2016-03-03T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:00:27","slug":"bishop_mark_lawrence_finding_elevation_in_the_sierra_nevadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53577","title":{"rendered":"[Bishop Mark Lawrence] Finding Elevation in the Sierra Nevadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/IMG_4658-e1455745333355_thumb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" \/><br \/>\nThe Devil&#8217;s Washbowl, Middle Fork Canyon<br \/>..The trail down the Middle Fork Canyon was breathtaking. Everywhere offering grand views both down the canyon as well as up toward the Sierra crest. It was one of the highlights of the trip for me. Each mile brought spectacular cliffs 4,000, to 5,000 thousand foot canyon walls and the river festooned with waterfalls, deep pools, raging rapids. But each impressive water fall or rapids made the words of warning echo in my ears\u201d\u201d\u201cBe careful fording the Middle Fork of the Kings!\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Just a mile or so past Devil\u2019s Washbowl things took an ironic turn. As I rounded the talus rock of a side canyon there was a stench of smoke. I thought at first it was a simple campfire\u201d\u201dbut wondered who might be in the canyon and why they\u2019d have a campfire on a rather warm afternoon. Too soon it was obvious this was no campfire but a forest fire.<\/p>\n<p>The entire canyon was filling with smoke\u201d\u201dabove me, behind me, in front of me, down trail below me. My first thought was\u201d\u201d\u201cWhere is the fire?\u201d\u009d and the second\u201d\u201d\u201cWhat should I do?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bishopmarklawrence.org\/?p=172\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Devil&#8217;s Washbowl, Middle Fork Canyon..The trail down the Middle Fork Canyon was breathtaking. Everywhere offering grand views both down the canyon as well as up toward the Sierra crest. It was one of the highlights of the trip for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53577\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,54,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-south-carolina","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}