{"id":3952,"date":"2016-06-30T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2016-06-30T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:09:54","slug":"vermont-route-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/vermont-route-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Route 108"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3954\" style=\"width: 783px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108.jpg\" alt=\"Route 108 at Smuggler's Notch\" width=\"773\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108.jpg 773w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Route-108-400x255.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Route 108 at Smuggler&#8217;s Notch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two weeks ago, on one of my off days, I explored the Green Mountains just east of Burlington.  Specifically, I was curious about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vermont_Route_108\">Vermont Route 108<\/a> which has the reputation of being one of the most intimidating roads east of the Rockies.  I have to say that it didn&#8217;t disappoint&#8230; at Smuggler&#8217;s Notch &#8211; the pass through the mountains near Mt Mansfield &#8211; the road narrows to a single lane and traverses a chasm, with an S-curve, that prevents seeing oncoming traffic.  The only comfort is that no one in their right mind would be traveling more than 5 mph through this curve, so the risk of a high-speed head-on collision is nil.  But, still, I did this with my monster truck and would have appreciated an extra set of eyes so that I could simultaneously watch for sides scraping and oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>I made it, but I am not about to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>This route passes by both Smuggler&#8217;s Notch (north of the notch) and Stowe (south of the notch) resorts, two of the largest and best ski areas in the east.  Should I ever go skiing at one of these places (unlikely as they are a long way from Ft Myers), I will know how to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, on one of my off days, I explored the Green Mountains just east of Burlington. Specifically, I was curious about Vermont Route 108 which has the reputation of being one of the most intimidating roads east of the Rockies. I have to say that it didn&#8217;t disappoint&#8230; at Smuggler&#8217;s Notch &#8211; the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/vermont-route-108\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-routes","category-vt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-11K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}