{"id":13722,"date":"2022-01-27T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13722"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:30:10","slug":"skywatch-friday-meandering-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13722","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday – Meandering on the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Went on another hike on Turkey Mountain this week. Another cold, and to some, unpleasant day. To me, it wasn’t raining and I had the right clothes on so it was a great day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Mountain has all sorts of relics from its past life. Near I guess what used to be a farm there is this grizzled old tree wrapped a bunch of times with barbed wire. Ouch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wire is holding up this old fence of some sort of chicken wire, hog wire, whatever wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And an abandoned cistern nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving on to the west I came upon a cleared part of Turkey Mountain. It was cleared by the land owners at the time who were trying to sell the parcel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They ended up in a contract with an outlet mall developer but that led to a huge fight in the city and the developer left in a huff and cut a deal with a suburb and started building the mall there but then changed their mind and there is now a few slabs, and some structural steel that is rusting away. Turkey Mountain missed a bullet is what I say. Money was donated to by the property from the owners and it is protected now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving on, I was in a tree mood today. I love trees in all seasons. In the winter we get to see their bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Headed north to the revamped Y and came across an abandoned oil gathering line. Turkey Mountain used to be a prolific oil field but it played out but there is lots of remnants today. Old pipelines and pumpjack foundations scattered across the landscape, and a few old wellheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting closer to the Y, their abandoned disc golf course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And their ropes course. You ever ropes? I think that ropes and other team building exercises are a huge scam. I participated in a bunch of them and I hated all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then the little lake at the Y where they have kayaks and canoes, fishing, and swimming. Now stuff like that is fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then headed back to the parking lot, another mystery on Turkey Mountain. A deep hole, a homemade ladder and a camouflaged drier vent hose. Meth lab, the hangout of the last Democrat in Oklahoma? Who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is my route of about three miles. I started at the very lower right corner, the upper parking lot and went in a clockwise direction and then returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now a bonus sky, one morning’s sunrise with a reflection off my car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a drone photo from above my house looking south one evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is it for this week’s Skywatch post. I am linking with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a> come join in!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went on another hike on Turkey Mountain this week. Another cold, and to some, unpleasant day. To me, it wasn’t raining and I had the right clothes on so it was a great day. Turkey Mountain has all sorts of relics from its past life. Near I guess what used to be a farm there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1271,1284],"class_list":["post-13722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-turkey-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13723,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions\/13723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}