{"id":1067,"date":"2013-07-30T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T01:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2013-07-30T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T01:39:50","slug":"reds-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Reds Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7\/28\/13 &#8211; 70 miles<br \/>\nToday we walked 13 miles, the longest day yet. It was tiring but tolerable because most of the afternoon into Reds Meadows was a gentle downhill.  <\/p>\n<p>We were afraid that all the good campsites at Reds would be gone so we decided to send our fastest hikers on ahead to secure a site while the rest could take their time. Deadeye and N were chosen to go on ahead of the group and they took off like scalded dogs. On the last five miles into the resort they hit a blistering 4 mph, taking only 1 hour, 15 minutes to cover the distance. <\/p>\n<p>N tells the story of part of their high-speed walk:    &#8220;I was trying to keep up with Deadeye and starting to get awful thirsty. I couldn&#8217;t understand why he wouldn&#8217;t stop for water. Then I realized he was drinking out of his damn water bladder &#8211; he didn&#8217;t need to stop. I finaly got close enough to stop him so I could get a drink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They secured one of the last remaining sites and we all enjoyed hamburgers and showers before turning in. As usual everything at a backcountry resort is expensive &#8211; it cost $9 to take a shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/28\/13 &#8211; 70 miles Today we walked 13 miles, the longest day yet. It was tiring but tolerable because most of the afternoon into Reds Meadows was a gentle downhill. We were afraid that all the good campsites at Reds would be gone so we decided to send our fastest hikers on ahead to secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}