{"id":6079,"date":"2015-03-23T23:24:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T06:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2015-03-23T23:24:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T06:24:54","slug":"along-the-south-fork-of-the-south-platte-river-wk-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/along-the-south-fork-of-the-south-platte-river-wk-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Along The South Fork Of The South Platte River &#8212; wk 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after checking the weather forecast, I decided to head off to a different location along the South Platte. Heading down to Sedalia, I then turned towards the mountains to Deckers and the South Fork of the Platte River. It has been a few months since visiting this stretch of the river. This fork was flowing more gently than the North Fork that I visit more frequently. Most of the snow had melted since this stretch gets more sun. At a narrow section of the river, the water flows over coarse granite rock and boulders. At this section, the flowing water had gouged the rock, leaving water-filled hollows that looked like giant footprints.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6075\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1529-0009-Gouged-Rock-Pools-Like-Giant-Footsteps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6075\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1529-0009-Gouged-Rock-Pools-Like-Giant-Footsteps.jpg\" alt=\"1529-0009-Gouged-Rock-Pools-Like-Giant-Footsteps\" width=\"586\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gouged Rock Pools, Like Giant Footsteps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This section of the river is very narrow, with a vertical canyon wall that plummets down to the water. The granite wall has some interesting features that I captured below. I also included two giant foreground boulders in the composition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6077\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1529-0041-Granite-Rock-Face-And-Boulders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6077\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6077\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1529-0041-Granite-Rock-Face-And-Boulders.jpg\" alt=\"1529-0041-Granite-Rock-Face-And-Boulders\" width=\"537\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Granite Rock Face And Boulders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Further upstream, I found this water pool with a reflection of the giant boulder in the background.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6078\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1529-0044-Reflections-In-Rock-Pool-South-Fork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6078\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6078\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1529-0044-Reflections-In-Rock-Pool-South-Fork.jpg\" alt=\"1529-0044-Reflections-In-Rock-Pool-South-Fork\" width=\"550\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflections In Rock Pool, South Fork<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after checking the weather forecast, I decided to head off to a different location along the South Platte. Heading down to Sedalia, I then turned towards the mountains to Deckers and the South Fork of the Platte River. It has been a few months since visiting this stretch of the river. This fork was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[524,304,224,155,974,910,973,972],"class_list":{"0":"post-6079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-project52","7":"tag-boulder","8":"tag-canyon","9":"tag-granite","10":"tag-platte-river","11":"tag-pool","12":"tag-rock","13":"tag-rock-wall","14":"tag-south-fork"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-1A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}