{"id":1382048,"date":"2018-12-11T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/the-hunt-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T04:40:00","slug":"forest-service-facilitates-4th-grade-families-hunt-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/forest-service-facilitates-4th-grade-families-hunt-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Service facilitates 4th-grade families\u2019 hunt for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Christmas fast approaching Glenwood Springs Elementary fourth grader Jack Clifford, 9, was really excited to go on his first Christmas tree hunt.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the “Every Kid in a Park” initiative, the U.S. Forest Service and White River National Forest is giving out free Christmas tree permits for fourth graders and their families.<\/p>\n

His dad said “It’s been at least a decade since we have done this, before Jack was born,” his dad, Damon Clifford, said.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday Damon, mom Kristin and Jack Clifford all took to the mountains of the White River National Forest to harvest this year’s family Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great experience, more fun than just going and buying one,” Damon Clifford said. “It’s a good excuse to get outside and enjoy winter.”<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long for the Cliffords to find their tree, as they hiked through the knee-deep snow above Sunlight Mountain Resort off of Four Mile Road.<\/p>\n

With a few strokes of a saw, the tree was down and ready to packed out.<\/p>\n

“This is probably the best tree we’ve ever had,” Jack said as he jumped around in the snow.<\/p>\n

Without batting an eye, Jack grabbed ahold of the tree and began the hike back.<\/p>\n

Smiling the whole way back, Jack couldn’t stop talking about the experience.<\/p>\n

“I love it, because I get to go out in the wilderness,” he added. “Dragging it was the best part.”<\/p>\n

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With Christmas fast approaching Glenwood Springs Elementary fourth grader Jack Clifford, 9, was really excited to go on his first Christmas tree hunt. Thanks to the “Every Kid in a Park” initiative, the U.S. Forest Service and White River National Forest is giving out free Christmas tree permits for fourth graders and their families. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1382048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 05:40:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}