{"id":17840,"date":"2017-02-02T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17840"},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T11:06:05","slug":"snow-in-the-hudson-valley-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/snow-in-the-hudson-valley-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow in the Hudson Valley\u2014January 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I made another visit to the scenic Lower Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n

At first I was delighted by about 6 inches of freshly fallen snow.<\/p>\n

Then I began to discover a new challenge. One by one, I found that all my usual parking spots were essentially inaccessible because of the snow.<\/p>\n

Despite this difficulty, I secured a spot near Breakneck Ridge, and made the difficult climb on foot to this vista. While not a bad hike on a dry day, this was tricky with snow on top of mud.<\/p>\n

My reward was a clean Amtrak dual mode Genesis running south on the normal northward track to go around a HyRail truck.<\/p>\n

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Amtrak train 280 passing Bannermans Castle in January 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The nice thing about a zoom lens is the ability to rapidly adjust the focal length.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photos exposed using my FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with 18-135mm Fujinon zoom lens.<\/p>\n

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Last week, I made another visit to the scenic Lower Hudson Valley. At first I was delighted by about 6 inches of freshly fallen snow. Then I began to discover a new challenge. One by one, I found that all my usual parking spots were essentially inaccessible because of the snow. Despite this difficulty, I … Continue reading Snow in the Hudson Valley\u2014January 2017.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4054,4057,4055,4056,31,860,830,1229],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Amtrak_280_passing_Bannermans_Castle_Cold_Spring_DSCF0677.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4DK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17841,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions\/17841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}