{"id":6810,"date":"2020-12-06T20:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2021-01-03T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:59:12","slug":"diamond-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/06\/diamond-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"Invalid slider id. Master Slider ID must be a valid number.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 3.13%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 18.8%;\" data-csstartpoint=\"30.000003051757812\" data-csendpoint=\"210.0000030517578\" data-cswidth=\"18.8%\" data-csid=\"9ae65aeb-e312-f0e0-ad92-30f84f2ae591\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.48%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 72.2%;\" data-csstartpoint=\"252.99998779296874\" data-csendpoint=\"945.9999877929688\" data-cswidth=\"72.2%\" data-csid=\"ff2589d8-ffe5-d64e-96ad-a838d9720134\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">This hike starts from the Lake Sebago parking lot.\u00a0 From the parking lot, cross Seven Lakes Drive to access the trailhead and Seven Hills Trail (blue markers).\u00a0 The start is a steep climb traversing to the top of Conklin Mountain for .35 miles until you descend to Diamond Creek.\u00a0 Cross the creek and continue up a short way where the Seven Hills Trail makes a sharp right turn off the woods road you have been on. The woods road continues straight and many people miss the turn off because it is not well marked.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A half mile after Diamond Creek, the Seven Hills trail intersects with the Tuxedo-Mt. Ivy trail (red markers).\u00a0 Continue on the Seven Hills trail and soon you will gain the Diamond Mountain ridge.\u00a0 This ridge is over one mile long and has great view point looking northwest.\u00a0 After one the trail descends steeply along a rock cliff requiring some down climbing.\u00a0 Turn back here or continue to descend and create a small lollipop loop hike.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once down from the cliff, the trail meets the Kakiat Trail (white markers).\u00a0 Turn left and hike about 100 yards until you come to a bridge crossing Pine Meadow Brook.\u00a0 The Kakiat Trail crosses the bridge so stay straight where to gain the Pine Meadow Trail.\u00a0 The Pine Meadow Trail follows the brook passing some nice cascades.\u00a0 Follow for a half mile to some\u00a0 stone ruins.\u00a0 Pass the ruins on the left, do not drop down onto a woods road that is nearby.\u00a0 The Pine Meadow trail will make a sharp right just after the ruins at the intersection of two yellow trails.\u00a0 The Yellow trail straight ahead is the Diamond Mountain Tower Trail (there is no tower on this trail).\u00a0 You will know you are on the correct trail if the ascent is no so steep.\u00a0 Follow for a half mile until you reach the ridge of Diamond Mountain and the Seven Hills Trail.\u00a0 Turn right and follow back the way you came.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 1.46%; text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"clear: both; float: none; display: block; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0; text-align: justify;\"><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"mapmyfitness_route\" src=\"\/\/snippets.mapmycdn.com\/routes\/view\/embedded\/3721698706?width=600&amp;height=400&amp;elevation=true&amp;info=true&amp;line_color=E60f0bdb&amp;rgbhex=DB0B0E&amp;distance_markers=0&amp;unit_type=imperial&amp;map_mode=TERRAIN&amp;last_updated=2020-11-29T18:51:54-05:00\" width=\"100%\" height=\"570px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right; padding-right: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyrun.com\/routes\/create\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Create Routes<\/a><br \/>\nor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyrun.com\/routes\/\">Search for a route<\/a><br \/>\nfrom millions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyrun.com\">MapMyRun<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This hike starts from the Lake Sebago parking lot.\u00a0 From the parking lot, cross Seven Lakes Drive to access the trailhead and Seven Hills Trail (blue markers).\u00a0 The start is a steep climb traversing to the top of Conklin Mountain for .35 miles until you descend to Diamond Creek.\u00a0 Cross the creek and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}