{"id":1696,"date":"2010-06-27T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2010-06-27T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:04:14","slug":"muir-woods-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/06\/muir-woods-after-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Muir Woods After Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, Brendan, Brandon, Maria, and I headed up to Muir Woods National Monument for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pwr\/customcf\/apps\/eventcalendar\/events\/muwoevent65950638.html\">evening hike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walking through the woods at night is very calming and a nice escape. I live in an apartment, so I never get to escape noise. I really only started to notice how much I missed quietness after moving away from home and <a href=\"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/08\/home-2\/\">going back for a visit<\/a>. Muir Woods offered this same calmness. I haven&#8217;t walked this deep into the woods at night for a long time&#8230; probably not since elementary school.\u00a0At one point the ranger even had us each walk quietly down the trail alone, which was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the area and are looking for a different way to experience the forest, I&#8217;d recommend giving this a try. The hike is generally offered between March and November on nights with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=next+full+moon\">full moon<\/a>. You can find it on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/muwo\/planyourvisit\/events.htm\">events page<\/a> for the park. It&#8217;s a free event and they don&#8217;t even charge admission to the park that late, so the entire experience is free. It&#8217;s a really easy hike, but remember to bring a jacket or sweatshirt as it gets cold up there at night. They&#8217;ll tell you to bring a flashlight, but unless you have horrible night vision, don&#8217;t bother turning it on as it takes away from the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, Brendan, Brandon, Maria, and I headed up to Muir Woods National Monument for an evening hike. Walking through the woods at night is very calming and a nice escape. I live in an apartment, so I never get to escape noise. I really only started to notice how much I missed quietness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/06\/muir-woods-after-hours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muir Woods After Hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}