{"id":747,"date":"2020-01-21T17:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=747"},"modified":"2020-01-21T19:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:34:17","slug":"mt-colonel-foster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=747","title":{"rendered":"Mt Colonel Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mt Colonel Foster is undeniably the most impressive mountain peak on Vancouver Island and a magnet for all aspiring Island alpinists. Certainly I have found its draw irresistible having made well over a hundred trips up the Elk River Trail to climb the mountain or explore its vicinity. Here are some stories of a few of the ascents I&#8217;ve been a part of in over 30 years of obsessing about &#8216;the Colonel&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=519\">Cataract Arete (1988)<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=789\">Into the Mystic (1989)<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=777\">Gambler&#8217;s Bluff (2013 &#8211; 14)<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=783\">Great West Couloir winter (2014)<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=754\">Northwest Arete (2016)<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=593\">Great West Couloir (2019)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt Colonel Foster is undeniably the most impressive mountain peak on Vancouver Island and a magnet for all aspiring Island alpinists. Certainly I have found its draw irresistible having made well over a hundred trips up the Elk River Trail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/?page_id=747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P847kS-c3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisle.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}