{"id":2796,"date":"2019-07-11T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:12:47","slug":"day-82-into-cascade-lakes-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/07\/11\/day-82-into-cascade-lakes-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 82: Into Cascade Lakes National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hordes of hungry mosquitoes followed us in clouds as we hiked this morning driving us to distraction. Many hikers we passed were wearing headnets and all were keeping moving so as not to be eaten alive!Late morning the path wound through some long stretches of burnt forest with little or no recovery growth and, although it was bleak and barren, we welcomed the reduction in mosquito population that accompanied the dry region.The other difficulty was the lack of water. There were initially streams of snow melt but we held off filling up until the 3 Mile stream marked on our map. Unfortunately it turned out to be a stagnant pool. As there was no more water on the path for another 20 miles we had to make do with it and hoped that the filter worked adequately. It tasted fine anyway.We hiked on into Mazamo village only to find that the allocated PCT campsite was closed and all the other campsites were taken. Fortunately a friendly camper allowed us to share the campsite his family were using and we enjoyed time with him around the campfire before retiring to bed.The campsite does have showers and laundry as well as a Cafe and store and we have made use of all those facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hordes of hungry mosquitoes followed us in clouds as we hiked this morning driving us to distraction. Many hikers we passed were wearing headnets and all were keeping moving so as not to be eaten alive!Late morning the path wound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2856,"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\/07\/IMG_4365-01-1.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-J6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796"}],"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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}