{"id":305,"date":"2005-08-20T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=305"},"modified":"2005-08-20T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T01:05:00","slug":"toobing-the-lampassas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/toobing-the-lampassas-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Toobing the Lampassas River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well my sister Kara just left town. She came down for the night and day before heading back to school tomorrow. I gave her a couple tours of UMHB so she&#8217;d realize how much better it was once she got back to Ouchita.<br \/>\nWe spent about an hour-and-a-half hiking along the Lampassas river this morning. It was a fun hike, and I&#8217;m glad we finished it when we did. I was almost blown up by the time we got back.<br \/>\nI wish I could trace our exact route, but the best I could find was <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=belton,+tx&amp;ll=31.019435,-97.519240&amp;spn=0.032773,0.058464&amp;t=h&amp;hl=en\">satellite imagery<\/A> of the area.<br \/>\nIf you look around the center of the map, you can see the river rushing out of the dam from Stillhouse Hollow Lake. I estimate we travelled down the river (the dark green line) around the bend of the river and about half-way to I-35 (in the lower right hand corner of the image.<br \/>\nIt was a great trip. I really had no idea what we&#8217;d find &#8211; even though I&#8217;ve lived in the area since 2000.<br \/>\nThere was the beautiful chalk Falls and a number of improvements the Corps of Engineers had made in the area, including a fun suspension bridge.<br \/>\nI think I&#8217;ve convinced Allman we need to tube or kayak or something down the river, from the dam to I-35.<br \/>\nI think we&#8217;ll do it Labor Day weekend &#8211; so if anyone is interested in joining us &#8211; holla.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualearth.msn.com\/default.aspx?cp=31.021035|-97.529102&#038;style=h&#038;lvl=17&#038;v=1\">better<\/A> view of the area.<br \/>\nI think we ended up about in the center of <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualearth.msn.com\/default.aspx?cp=31.009756|-97.501007&#038;style=h&#038;lvl=16&#038;v=1\">this<\/A> map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well my sister Kara just left town. She came down for the night and day before heading back to school tomorrow. I gave her a couple tours of UMHB so she&#8217;d realize how much better it was once she got back to Ouchita. We spent about an hour-and-a-half hiking along the Lampassas river this morning. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/toobing-the-lampassas-river\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toobing the Lampassas River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-4V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}