{"id":29,"date":"2007-01-08T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/glacier-hiking\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:32:41","slug":"glacier-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Glacier Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a hike out at Mendenhall Glacier over the weekend.\u00a0 Torsten is a true Juneau kid:\u00a0 The sun poked out for a very nice Sunday, and Torsten thought it was waaay too bright.\u00a0 He refused to turn around for a picture, and said &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you take one of me walking away?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007JNU\/imgs\/01-07-07_1223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Torsten walkin'\" title=\"Torsten walkin'\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007JNU\/imgs\/01-07-07_1223.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then finally he would turn around but not look up:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007JNU\/imgs\/01-07-07_1224.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Too bright! What is that big light in the sky!?!\" title=\"Too bright! What is that big light in the sky!?!\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007JNU\/imgs\/01-07-07_1224.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I got him standing in my shadow and he gave a quick glance.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007JNU\/imgs\/01-07-07_1225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Torsten at the Glacier Visitor's Center\" title=\"Torsten at the Glacier Visitor's Center\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007JNU\/imgs\/01-07-07_1225.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look in that first picture&#8211;there are shadows!\u00a0 The sun really did come out! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a hike out at Mendenhall Glacier over the weekend.\u00a0 Torsten is a true Juneau kid:\u00a0 The sun poked out for a very nice Sunday, and Torsten thought it was waaay too bright.\u00a0 He refused to turn around for a picture, and said &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you take one of me walking away?&#8221; Then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glacier Hiking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgrandparents","category-juneau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}