{"id":2503,"date":"2023-05-29T04:12:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/?page_id=2503"},"modified":"2023-05-29T04:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:12:21","slug":"about-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/about-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"About 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, the bums are blazing their way across the American West, from BumHQ in Oakland, California to beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico! We&#8217;ll begin by following Adventure Cycling&#8217;s Western Express, and then peel off in Utah to find our own path to adventure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, we have a diverse roster of peddlers &#8211; listed, in order of appearance: Greg, Nick, Jim, Andrew, Alice, Anton, Zach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the prospective itinerary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Take off from Oakland on 6\/2<\/li><li>Head up to Sacramento via the delta, then catch the venerable American River trail up to Folsom<\/li><li>Slog our way up through the foothills eventually making our way over Carson + Luther Passes (pies at Hope Valley are on me), and down to Lake Tahoe<\/li><li>Leave the pristine waters behind as we race off eastward across Nevada along US-50 &#8211; the loneliest highway<\/li><li>We&#8217;ll have a big ol&#8217; climb out of Cedar City, UT along the Cedar Breaks, and then we&#8217;ll find ourselves&nbsp;in Utah Canyon country!<\/li><li>We&#8217;ll tool through Bryce Canyon, Grand Escalante, and Capitol Reef National&nbsp;Parks and all the gorgeous country in between, including a side quest along the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@37.8686467,-111.2948819,2a,75y,75.41h,93.28t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sKQV3IQxIhTK0tkj2sAGmQQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DKQV3IQxIhTK0tkj2sAGmQQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D80%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e4\"> Burr Trail<\/a>!<\/li><li>We&#8217;ll cross&nbsp;some more open country then onto Moab, UT, home of Arches National Park!<\/li><li>Take some backcountry roads through Even More canyonland, eventually following the Delores River as it flows into the Colorado at Grand Junction.<\/li><li>Next, we climb our way over Colorado&#8217;s Grand Mesa, then sail down along the rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison<\/li><li>Enjoy the scenic roller coaster ride of the Million Dollar Highway between Montrose and Durango<\/li><li>We&#8217;ll break south into New Mexico, heading through Abiquiu (home of Georgia O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Ghost Ranch) and then up through Los Alamos to the Valles Caldera<\/li><li>Finally, we&#8217;ll shoot down through Jimez Springs and across the New Mexican desert to Albuquerque and into the awaiting arms of Dan Pribble, Patron Saint of Lost Bums<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 100%;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=d41a1a49154e06ce48812bbe21675b7f&amp;load_empty_map=true&amp;width=100%&amp;map_cat=2023&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the bums are blazing their way across the American West, from BumHQ in Oakland, California to beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico! We&#8217;ll begin by following Adventure Cycling&#8217;s Western Express, and then peel off in Utah to find our own path to adventure! As usual, we have a diverse roster of peddlers &#8211; listed, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/about-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}