{"id":2468,"date":"2019-06-11T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2019-07-02T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:29:23","slug":"day-52-slow-going-snow-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/06\/11\/day-52-slow-going-snow-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 52: Slow going, snow going"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although we had a short section of snow free trail, most of the day today was again spent slogging through deep snow with no visible trail. At times we were traversing across steep slopes with Robert blazing the trail by cutting footsteps for himself one at a time, I followed closely behind in the prints he left.<\/p>\n

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Twice we decided to bush bash up the steep slopes instead of risking very steep snow traverses with long drops.<\/p>\n

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Once it worked out well and we could rejoin the trail easily but the second time the top was steep with loose rocks and dead wood and we had to carefully make our way back down to the trail.<\/p>\n

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We were still hiking at 7:30 and nowhere near our planned campsite so we have set up our tent on a flattish snow free spot surrounded by snow. Unfortunately there are small trees under our tent! We hope that with the undulating floor and freezing cold we will be able to get some sleep. We were only able to hike 16 miles today so we have a similar length to do tomorrow as we hope to finish this section and hitch a ride into town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although we had a short section of snow free trail, most of the day today was again spent slogging through deep snow with no visible trail. At times we were traversing across steep slopes with Robert blazing the trail by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"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\/06\/IMG_3696-01.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-DO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}