{"id":8511,"date":"2020-05-02T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:28:27","slug":"the-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/the-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the COVID-19 crisis, in addition to writing and revising my magnum opus, I’ve been doing a lot of hiking and mountain climbing. The other day, as I was leaving the house to hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail, I reached for my trusty hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wore the hat while climbing Mount Washington and other mountains in my late teens and early 20s. I wore it caving a couple of times. I wore it during an epic 80s overnight road trip from New York to Chicago. I wore it hiking through Glacier National Park and Yellowstone. I wore it while fly fishing in New York, Vermont, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. I wore it in the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, and Bryce Canyon. I wore it in the Adirondacks, the White Mountains, the Green Mountains, and the woods of Maine. I wore it while boating on Great Sacandaga Lake and in the Penobscot Bay of Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve had a lot of adventures with this hat, and it just occurred to me that it’s over 30 years old. I got the thing when I was 17 or 18. Here are a few photos from some recent adventures with the hat:
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Chris Orcutt hiking in Lake Minnewaska State Park, NY, fall 2018.

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Kaaterskill Falls, Catskill Mountains, NY. 2018 or 2019.

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A bluff over Canopus Lake, Fahnestock State Park, Appalachian Trail, Feb. 2020.

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Black bear tracks near Iron Mine Pond, Taconic State Park, March 2020.

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Cooking some Beyond Meat Italian sausage over a ‘lil “Indian” fire in Wilcox Park, Pine Plains, NY.

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The NY-MA-CT Tri-State monument, Taconic State Park, April 2020.

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The bluff above Canopus Lake again, but a better picture because I’m in it. :)

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Somewhere in the Green Mountains, 2019.

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During the COVID-19 crisis, in addition to writing and revising my magnum opus, I’ve been doing a lot of hiking and mountain climbing. The other day, as I was leaving the house to hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail, I reached for my trusty hat. I wore the hat while climbing Mount Washington and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,32,233],"tags":[552,547,94,551,546,554,549,548,550,553,221],"class_list":["post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-travel","category-writing-life","tag-adventure-hat","tag-boy-scout","tag-chris-orcutt","tag-hat","tag-hiking","tag-indiana-jones","tag-mountain-climbing","tag-order-of-the-arrow","tag-outdoorsmanship","tag-raiders-of-the-lost-ark","tag-writers-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}