{"id":68,"date":"2014-06-10T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikebums.com\/2014\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-06-10T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:01:42","slug":"goodbye-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/category\/2014\/goodbye-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my post the other day, i continued down from vail through very cold, very wet weather. Luckily, it was all downhill, else i likely would have blown three days budget on an overpriced hotel room. I set up my tent in the rain and holed up in there around 6:00 and just read all night. The next day (yesterday) i woke up to a bright, sunny (albeit chilly) morning. I let the tent dry while i finished my book, and hit the road towards glenwood springs.
\nWhen i reached the closed bike path, i decided to just go for it and see how bad it was. The part i rode was mostly okay, just a lot of spots covered in slippery river silt (which thoroughly covered my bike). However, there was one spot i needed to haul my bike over a floating log jam, and a few spots i needed to push through water, one of which was about three feet deep through a tunnel, so i had to shuttle my bags first, then my bike. I realized that this is another benefit of touring with other people: when you do something crazy (like wading your bike through the Colorado River), you have someone to document it, or at least verify that it happened! In the end, i still had to hitch a ride : I got to a locked gate, and at that point the river was pretty raging. Luckily, i was at a turnout for a hiking trail, and it didn’t take long for me to convince someone to give me a lift.
\nI’m definitely leaving the mountains behind as i slowly descend into the desert. <\/p>\n

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Easy peasy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hanging lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is as far as I go! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my post the other day, i continued down from vail through very cold, very wet weather. Luckily, it was all downhill, else i likely would have blown three days budget on an overpriced hotel room. I set up my tent in the rain and holed up in there around 6:00 and just read all … Continue reading “Goodbye, mountains”<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11"],"geo":{"latitude":39.0638695,"longitude":-108.5506516,"description":"Grand Junction, Colorado, United States"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikebums.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}