{"id":569,"date":"2012-09-10T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/2012\/09\/10\/pine-lakes-eagle-caps\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:33","slug":"pine-lakes-eagle-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Pine Lakes &#8211; Eagle Cap&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/101539632300896560957\/PineLakesEagleCapWilderness\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/pinelakes01.jpg\" align=\"top\" border=\"2\" height=\"359\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shoot from the hip and hope you don\u0092t blow off a toe in the draw. That pretty much sums up my approach to most things in life. Excursions into the wilderness seldom veer from this philosophy. Toss in a five pound bag of potatoes and a pound of bacon and head for the mountains with my dog. This year would see a change in that methodology.<\/p>\n<p>At least once a year I try to make an annual pilgrimage into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglecapwilderness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eagle Cap Wilderness<\/a> \u0096 specifically Pine Lakes. When a few members of the Squaw Butte Back Country Horseman expressed an interest in packing into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/detail\/wallowa-whitman\/recreation\/?cid=stelprdb5214080\" target=\"_blank\">Eagle Caps<\/a>, It was with conflicting emotions that I agreed to guide them in. Pine Lakes is filled with personal memories \u0096 mostly great, some sad and a few as spectacular as the lakes pristine azure waters. I don\u0092t mind sharing in the good and even a few of the spectacular moments, but the poignant memories are my own and likely not to be understood by others. I assured myself that it would be alright. Any such emotional episode could remain privately concealed behind dark sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/pdf\/pinelakes.pdf\" title=\"Labor Day Pack Trip\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/101539632300896560957\/PineLakesEagleCapWilderness\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/pinelakes03.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"2\" height=\"358\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoot from the hip and hope you don\u0092t blow off a toe in the draw. That pretty much sums up my approach to most things in life. Excursions into the wilderness seldom veer from this philosophy. Toss in a five pound bag of potatoes and a pound of bacon and head for the mountains with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-horse-camping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10791,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/10791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}