{"id":6145,"date":"2021-10-14T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:51:01","slug":"russian-gulch-and-our-walk-with-laddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=6145","title":{"rendered":"Russian Gulch and our walk with Laddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While in Caspar Beach, CA we drove just a few miles south to a state park called Russian Gulch.&nbsp; It\u2019s along the coast and there are several trails along the cliffs and to a sinkhole just off the shore where tidal water streams in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had postponed our visit to this park because of clouds and fog so we were happy the next morning when the skies were clear.&nbsp; It was a beautiful day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loop trail that we took to the sinkhole was just about \u00bd mile and very flat so that Laddy wouldn\u2019t get winded or have trouble going uphill (heart condition and very weak back legs).&nbsp; 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It\u2019s along the coast and there are several trails along the cliffs and to a sinkhole just off the shore where tidal water streams in and out. We had postponed our visit to this park because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=6145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian Gulch and our walk with Laddy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-166-caspar-beach-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6515,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions\/6515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}