{"id":31606,"date":"2025-07-04T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=31606"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:11:47","slug":"lower-ruffey-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/lower-ruffey-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Ruffey Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31607\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/256_6530-RAW-lower-ruffey-lake-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31607\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/256_6530-RAW-lower-ruffey-lake-clear.jpg\" alt=\"lower ruffey lake\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower Ruffey Lake from Upper Ruffey Lake (June 29, 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We did much of this trail 10 years ago, but on that occasion we went to <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/smith-lake-from-the-pct\/>Smith Lake<\/a>. This time we made a left off of the PCT and descended into the partial caldera that includes Upper Ruffey Lake draining into Lower Ruffey Lake below. We didn&#8217;t walk down to Lower Ruffey Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did much of this trail 10 years ago, but on that occasion we went to Smith Lake. This time we made a left off of the PCT and descended into the partial caldera that includes Upper Ruffey Lake draining into Lower Ruffey Lake below. We didn&#8217;t walk down to Lower Ruffey Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[399,17,796,893,1186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31611,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31606\/revisions\/31611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}