{"id":24,"date":"2022-11-26T22:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/?p=24"},"modified":"2022-11-26T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:35:32","slug":"pearl-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/2022\/11\/26\/pearl-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While I was on break this past week, I went on a trail ride at a state park near my home in MA called Pearl Hill. The specific trail I took was one I hadn&#8217;t gone on before and crested at an unnamed hill near Rattlesnake hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"933\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/Screenshot_20221126_102559.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/Screenshot_20221126_102559.png 933w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/Screenshot_20221126_102559-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/Screenshot_20221126_102559-768x738.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rattlesnake Hill and Pearl Hill State Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174335448-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" width=\"547\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174335448-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174335448-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174335448-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174335448-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174335448-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Photo of my Bike and the trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the area overall is pretty similar to Vermont&#8217;s ecology and overall landscape, there are a few clear differences. For one, due to the temperature difference, there were a few deciduous trees that still had leaves and a few of the said leaves were still bright green. As I got into the higher elevation parts of the park, the leaf litter decreased and lead way to a lot more pine needles scattered along the ground. At the pond near the parking lot, just a little bit of ice had started to form, marking the beginning of the true winter to come across all of New England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174341855-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174341855-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174341855-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174341855-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174341855-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/files\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221123_174341855-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was on break this past week, I went on a trail ride at a state park near my home in MA called Pearl Hill. The specific trail I took was one I hadn&#8217;t gone on before and crested at an unnamed hill near Rattlesnake hill. While the area overall is pretty similar to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/2022\/11\/26\/pearl-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pearl Hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"hwtaylor","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/author\/hwtaylor\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hwtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}