{"id":1175,"date":"2009-07-14T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2009-07-14T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:48:00","slug":"photos-from-the-edges-of-the-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Photos from the Edges of the Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>M. and I have returned from the smallest of the three Colorado Pagan camp-out festivals held at Wellington Lake, a large private campground<\/a>. Wellington Lake is dominated by a large rock formation called (imaginatively) The Castle.<\/p>\n

The photo above, however, is the west (back) side, which most festival attendees never see. But if you are a boundary-crossing transgressive Hagazussa<\/em>, then, perhaps you might find yourself on the Rolling Creek Trail<\/a> into the Lost Creek Wilderness.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RIGHT: Some Pagans spend so much time at Wellington Lake that they feel a certain sense of ownership.<\/p>\n

LEFT: The wet weeks of June meant that more mushrooms were available in the forest than usual for this time of year, including this and other boletes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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M. and I have returned from the smallest of the three Colorado Pagan camp-out festivals held at Wellington Lake, a large private campground. Wellington Lake is dominated by a large rock formation called (imaginatively) The Castle. The photo above, however, is the west (back) side, which most festival attendees never see. But if you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23,18],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-iX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1228,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1228","url_meta":{"origin":1175,"position":0},"title":"Colorado Pagans To Lose Festival Site","author":"Chas S. 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