{"id":2362,"date":"2019-05-25T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/05\/25\/day-35-slack-packing\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T01:08:07","slug":"day-35-slack-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/05\/25\/day-35-slack-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 35: Slack-packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we said yesterday, we are staying another night in Tehachapi due to forecast bad weather. But the morning was supposed to be OK so we took the opportunity to do an 8 mile section from one trail\/road intersection to another.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers above are Californian poppies, the state floral emblem.<\/p>\n<p>After waiting till 10am to post some boxes, we were fortunate to be able to join another hiker who had the same idea. He had organised a lift both to and from the trail points.<\/p>\n<p>So we had a beautiful sunny day cruising along with virtually no gear, just water, snacks and rain clothes. This is known as slack packing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"2360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1365,304\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dsc_0006-018081324229409739582.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582-300x67.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582-1024x228.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-2360 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1365\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582-300x67.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582-768x171.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dsc_0006-018081324229409739582-1024x228.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows why Tehachapi is renowned for its wind farms. You may not be able to see but there are hundreds of turbines in the above 360deg view.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"2361\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/img_3352-016397674829786739373\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1366,837\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3352-016397674829786739373.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373-300x184.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373-1024x627.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-2361 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1366\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373-300x184.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373-768x471.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_3352-016397674829786739373-1024x627.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trail angel Jeff (shown above) gave us a lift back to Tehachapi (thanks Jeff). The photo also shows the point where Cheryl Strayed (from the book\/movie Wild) started her PCT journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we said yesterday, we are staying another night in Tehachapi due to forecast bad weather. But the morning was supposed to be OK so we took the opportunity to do an 8 mile section from one trail\/road intersection to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3342-01.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-C6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}