{"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 — wk 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Gouged Rock Pools, Like Giant Footsteps<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Granite Rock Face And Boulders<\/p><\/div>\n

Further upstream, I found this water pool with a reflection of the giant boulder in the background.<\/p>\n

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Reflections In Rock Pool, South Fork<\/p><\/div>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[524,304,224,155,974,910,973,972],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-project52","tag-boulder","tag-canyon","tag-granite","tag-platte-river","tag-pool","tag-rock","tag-rock-wall","tag-south-fork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t