{"id":8625,"date":"2013-11-11T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2013-11-11T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:01:18","slug":"aprilmay-2013-take-it-or-leave-it-my-favorite-tourists-2-charles-pipes-site-40a-the-devils-garden-campgroundby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/aprilmay-2013-take-it-or-leave-it-my-favorite-tourists-2-charles-pipes-site-40a-the-devils-garden-campgroundby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(April\/May 2013) Take it or Leave it: My Favorite Tourists #2: Charles Pipes, site 40A &amp; the Devils Garden Campground\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was a seasonal ranger, I lived at the Devils Garden Campground at Arches National Park for a full decade. Some people thought I\u2019d never leave; even I wondered if I\u2019d ever get out of there alive. I worried that the tourists might drive me insane and it\u2019s true I could get a bit surly with them from time to time. Over the years, I acquired something of a reputation.<\/p>\n<p>But looking back, I realize how many dear friends I made during my Arches era\u2014friendships that would last to this day. Just recently, I called up my old pal Ken Curtis, a former battalion commander with the Salt Lake City fire department. For years, he and many of his colleagues, and their families, would descend on Arches for Easter Week. Jeep Safari might have been a tradition for some Moabites. For me it was the firefighters. Ken\u2019s now in his late 80s; Rubi his wonderful wife of more than 50 years, passed away almost a decade ago, but Ken and many of his pals are still going strong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read the rest of Jim&#8217;s story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-my-favorite-tourists-2-charles-pipes-site-40a-the-devils-garden-campground-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8626\" alt=\"chaspipes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chaspipes.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chaspipes.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chaspipes-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-my-favorite-tourists-2-charles-pipes-site-40a-the-devils-garden-campground-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-my-favorite-tourists-2-charles-pipes-site-40a-the-devils-garden-campground-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: When I was a seasonal ranger, I lived at the Devils Garden Campground at Arches National Park for a full decade. Some people thought I\u2019d never leave; even I wondered if I\u2019d ever get out of there alive. I worried that the tourists might drive me insane and it\u2019s true I could get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10336,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}