{"id":6209,"date":"2012-08-21T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2012-08-25T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:25:37","slug":"marmot-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"Marmot &#038; shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have two local species of marmot: yellow-bellied and hoary. The yellow-bellied marmot lives in the valleys and has been featured two times this year: <a title=\"Mommy marmot\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5249\">mommy marmot<\/a>, <a title=\"March marmot\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4482\">March marmot<\/a>. The hoary marmot lives in alpine country and has appeared only once and that was last year: <a title=\"Bethany\u2019s marmot\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2775\">Bethany&#8217;s marmot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While on a recent hike between Gibson Lake and Kaslo Lake, my daughter, Cynthia, was surprised by how boldly a marmot approached and examined her sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>A hoary marmot stands in a field of western anenome.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6213\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoarymarmot120818sCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The marmots take an interest in hikers. This one licked and chewed Cynthia&#8217;s tattered trail runners.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6211\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoarymarmot120818bsCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The marmot&#8217;s black, brown and grey blends well with its home terrain.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6210\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoarymarmot120818csCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is Cynthia&#8217;s panorama of Kokanee Lake from the trail alongside it. Marmots prefer the alpine meadows to the rocky slopes of this lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6214\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kokaneelakepano120818sCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Cynthia Fraser&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We have two local species of marmot: yellow-bellied and hoary. The yellow-bellied marmot lives in the valleys and has been featured two times this year: mommy marmot, March marmot. The hoary marmot lives in alpine country and has appeared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals","category-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}