{"id":37761,"date":"2025-10-02T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=37761"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:21:10","slug":"cloudy-sunrise-on-pres-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=37761","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy sunrise on Pre’s Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you live in Eugene and you need a good outdoor walk, but you do NOT want to walk on cement … Pre’s Trail<\/a>. I went around 10 miles this morning leaving home around 6:00 and returning at 9:00; the key – 8 miles on bark dust! (feet cushions)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those soft trails were so welcome after Tuesday’s Ridgeline<\/a> on gravel – my feet were happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rain threatened at first but as the sun rose, things got better. A nutria, a kingfisher, and several herons appeared before enough camera light. But, the wood ducks were later. (photo is a bit off, but the duck’s colors amazing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another heron was fishing (I think) but why standing in the fast-moving Willamette River shallows I could not understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along the millrace, the contrast of objects, plants, water and sky … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much of the trail goes between that mill race and a large meadow … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unstable, changing weather patterns in Willamette Valley in October – just what you’d expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you live in Eugene and you need a good outdoor walk, but you do NOT want to walk on cement … Pre’s Trail. I went around 10 miles this morning leaving home around 6:00 and returning at 9:00; the key – 8 miles on bark dust! (feet cushions) Those soft trails were so welcome…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,33],"class_list":["post-37761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","tag-alton-baker-park","tag-pres-trail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goatbells.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSCN2239.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37768,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions\/37768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}