{"id":46,"date":"2013-08-10T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T00:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikebums.com\/2013\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-08-10T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T00:15:33","slug":"in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/category\/2013\/in-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"In the mountains!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Quick update before I go off the grid again. I made it into Lewiston &#8211; Clarkston, where I replaced my balding tire. Next I had a pretty tough 2000 foot climb up the &#8220;old spiral highway&#8221;, a welcome no-traffic alternative to the side-cut ramp of the main highway. Then the rolling grain fields slowly gave way to tree-lined hills, and then I suddenly found myself in the lumber town of potlatch (where the sign happily expounds how it was a lumber company planned town, where workers were housed right next to the mill, while &#8220;managers houses were built away from the noise and smoke&#8221;). From there, I snaked my way through old growth pine stands and into wide open valleys. Now I&#8217;m in Saint Maries, where I&#8217;ll head up the st. Joe river until I pick up the &#8220;route of the Hiawatha&#8221;, a much-touted rail trail that will take me over the border into Montana via a tunnel! I should be in big sky country tomorrow night! <\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-IMG_20130809_1226481.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130809_122648.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-IMG_20130809_122648.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aptly named spiral highway <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Quick update before I go off the grid again. I made it into Lewiston &#8211; Clarkston, where I replaced my balding tire. Next I had a pretty tough 2000 foot climb up the &#8220;old spiral highway&#8221;, a welcome no-traffic alternative to the side-cut ramp of the main highway. Then the rolling grain fields slowly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/category\/2013\/in-the-mountains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the mountains!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"geo":{"latitude":47.3121605,"longitude":-116.5593796,"description":"Saint Maries, Idaho, 83861, US"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}