{"id":87,"date":"2009-01-30T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T22:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-01-30T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T22:46:01","slug":"continental-divide-crossing-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/2009\/01\/30\/continental-divide-crossing-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Divide crossing the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Silver City, New Mexico, Thursday 29th<br \/>\nSince leaving Phoenix and the comfort of Mike and Joan&#8217;s, two words will<br \/>\npretty much sum up my trip: climbing and cold.<br \/>\nI have crossed the <a href=\"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/files\/2009\/01\/downsized_0128091225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/files\/2009\/01\/downsized_0128091225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> but still have one more big Mt.<br \/>\n(8200 ft.) before I begin my descent into El Paso, TX.; I will tackle that<br \/>\none tomorrow. The hills that I&#8217;ve climbed on the way to Silver City have<br \/>\nmore elevation gain than what I have left because I will begin the day at<br \/>\n6200 ft.. However, the lack of oxygen is noticeable (for a guy who lives<br \/>\nat about 50 ft. above sea level).<br \/>\nI was worried about the weather at this altitude but it looks like I will<br \/>\nhave clear skies and a favorable wind for the rest of my trip through the<br \/>\nmountains. The last few mornings I have found solid blocks of ice in my<br \/>\nwater bottles. Also, the condensation inside of my tent freezes and when I<br \/>\nbump the walls a minor snow flurry happens. The extreme cold makes it<br \/>\ndifficult to get my camp torn down because my hands freeze up in about 30<br \/>\nseconds. But, the sun eventually starts warming things up and melting the<br \/>\nice that is covering my gear and I do get started, although later than I<br \/>\nwould like. Like I seem to be fond of saying: it&#8217;s all part of the<br \/>\nadventure. I will be glad to leave the mountains and cold behind!!! Once<br \/>\nout of the mountains I expect to cover lots of miles.<br \/>\nTexas, here I come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Silver City, New Mexico, Thursday 29th Since leaving Phoenix and the comfort of Mike and Joan&#8217;s, two words will pretty much sum up my trip: climbing and cold. I have crossed the but still have one more big Mt. (8200 ft.) before I begin my descent into El Paso, TX.; I will tackle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spokingup.biketravellers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}