{"id":15480,"date":"2025-04-29T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:17:36","slug":"skywatch-friday-on-the-trail-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15480","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday – On the Trail Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was feeling all energetic and everything so I thought that I would go for a little hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness. I probably should have gone to the gym, but I’m gymed out, Physical Therapy is all gym, and not the fun kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So off I went, the trails were all wet, not very muddy though but rain was in the forecast and the park warned that they might close the park to everybody if it got bad enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The upside of rain is that all the ponds were full. Nice to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used a mixture of the new trails and the old trails. The Stay Gold and Tree Hugger respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This pond was dry the last time I came by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was going down the trail with my Merlin app trying to figure out the birds that were singing and a mountain biker came by and said to be sure to watch out for the copperhead snake on the trail up ahead. Yes sir! Time to put the eyes on the trail and not the device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you know how many sticks look like snakes!! A bunch. The thing about copperheads is that they are the slugs of the poisonous snake families. They are not vicious and once they find a spot they like, they don’t like to move, and they are hard to see. So watch where you step!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only snake I saw was this chain snake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a Skywatch Friday post so I need to have one view of the sky. Here’s the overlook on Turkey Mountain on the very southeast side of the park. That’s the Arkansas River down below. To the left are the funky old office towers that used to be the televangelist Oral Roberts hospital. (Don’t ask me why a faith healer needs a hospital.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then back to the parking lot. Never did see that copperhead. I am not complaining about it, just saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am linking with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a> and Our Corner of the World<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was feeling all energetic and everything so I thought that I would go for a little hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness. I probably should have gone to the gym, but I’m gymed out, Physical Therapy is all gym, and not the fun kind. So off I went, the trails were all wet, […]<\/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":[3294,10],"tags":[1329,3871,3272,1271,1284],"class_list":["post-15480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-corner-of-the-world","category-skywatch-friday","tag-hiking","tag-knee-rehab","tag-my-corner-of-the-world","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-turkey-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480"}],"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=15480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}