{"id":4045,"date":"2014-06-13T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hikeandlearn.org\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:31:30","slug":"ranger-dave-s-colorado-trail-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/ranger-dave-s-colorado-trail-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranger Dave&#8217;s Colorado Trail Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rangerdavehikes.blogspot.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4046 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/hikeandlearn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dave-ct.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Van Manen\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Follow Ranger Dave as he prepares for and hikes the Colorado Trail this summer. A little history: In 2010 and 2011, MPEC&#8217;s Founder Dave Van Manen backpacked the 487-mile Colorado Trail as a fund-raiser for MPEC Nature education programs. He recently learned that an additional 80 miles have been added to the Colorado Trail, along the high peaks of the Collegiate Range west of Bue<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2900\" src=\"http:\/\/hikeandlearn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/earth-studies-banner-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"earth studies banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" \/>na Vista and Salida. So, Ranger Dave will be hitting the trail once again. This effort will also be a fund-raising effort for MPEC&#8217;s education programs. You can follow his adventure at Ranger Dave&#8217;s Colorado Trail blog by clicking <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rangerdavehikes.blogspot.com\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Please consider making a pledge or donation towards this fund-raising effort &#8211; all funds will directly support giving young people meaningful experiences in Nature (like MPEC&#8217;s award-winning Earth Studies program that reaches over 1200 Pueblo 5th-graders every year with multiple days of outdoor-based education). You can click <a href=\"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.org\/membershipdonations\/donate\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> to make a donation, or you can send a pledge to Dave at mpec@hikeandlearn.org. Thanks!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1179\" src=\"http:\/\/hikeandlearn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/es-group-lodge1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"es group lodge\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Ranger Dave as he prepares for and hikes the Colorado Trail this summer. A little history: In 2010 and 2011, MPEC&#8217;s Founder Dave Van Manen backpacked the 487-mile Colorado Trail as a fund-raiser for MPEC Nature education programs. He recently learned that an additional 80 miles have been added to the Colorado Trail, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}