The area around Elpoca Mountain looks fascinating to me, and I never got a chance to explore it. It was a forbidden land — closed because of grizzly sightings. But the vertical slabs of rock jutting from the warm grassy slopes was a magical contrast that caught my attention, and something I have not seen often in the rocky mountains. <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The area around Elpoca Mountain looks fascinating to me, and I never got a chance to explore it. It was a forbidden land — closed because of grizzly sightings. But the vertical slabs of rock jutting from the warm grassy slopes was a magical contrast that caught my attention, and something I have not seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,726,87,3],"tags":[725,715,721,722,716,240,719,270,718,723,720,717],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-mountain-2","category-photo-of-the-day","category-travel","tag-elpoca","tag-elpoca-mountain","tag-forbidden-land","tag-grassy-slopes","tag-kananaskis","tag-landscape","tag-magical-contrast","tag-mountain","tag-rocky-mountains","tag-slabs","tag-vertical-slabs","tag-warm-grassy-slopes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t