{"id":136,"date":"2009-06-21T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-06-21T00:04:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T00:04:44","slug":"big-dominguez-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/21\/big-dominguez-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Dominguez Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve just returned from a six-day river rafting trip in western Colorado, on the Gunnison River in Big Dominguez Canyon, which my pal Barack has recently approved as a Wilderness Area. Beautiful redrock canyons, great birds: We saw Bullock&#8217;s Orioles, Canyon Wrens, Blue Grosbeaks, Scott&#8217;s Orioles, Western Kingbirds, Bank Swallows, Bluegray Gnatcatchers, Yellow-Breasted Chats, Bald Eagles, and Peregrine Falcons, among others. Also spotted a beaver, a fox, deer, bighorn sheep, and a lone donkey on a hilltop. The river is mellow enough for my two-year-old, with only Class II rapids. There&#8217;s rock art dating back to the Anasazi era and up to 19th century (see photo below).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138\" title=\"RockArt\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rockart.jpg\" alt=\"RockArt\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" \/><br \/>\nOur favorite spot was the junction of the Gunnison River and Big Dominguez Creek, where Big Dominguez Canyon meets the river (see photo below). The worst moments included a sea of mud after a thunderstorm and a swarm of ungodly mosquitos.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"GunnisonRiver\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gunnisonriver.jpg\" alt=\"GunnisonRiver\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve just returned from a six-day river rafting trip in western Colorado, on the Gunnison River in Big Dominguez Canyon, which my pal Barack has recently approved as a Wilderness Area. Beautiful redrock canyons, great birds: We saw Bullock&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/21\/big-dominguez-canyon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}