{"id":804,"date":"2013-01-02T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2013-01-03T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T23:11:53","slug":"sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I may have given you the wrong idea. There is no way, especially this time of year, that I’m even thinking of attempting a thruhike of the PCT. I know that’s what I said before I started the AT, but rest assured that, if nominated I will not hike. The PCT is a young man’s hike and takes a lot of planning, all together different than my ‘fly by wire’ approach. All I’m trying to do is scope out some small day-hikes for spring.<\/p>\n

For the last couple of days, I’ve been playing the tourist. I stopped at the Imperial Sand Dunes and talked with two nice rangers at the visitors center. The area is playground to hundreds of vacationers with off-road vehicles. The dunes are alive with dirt bikes, quads, and buggies, all racing across the sand like ants disturbed from their hill. As long as I was there, the rangers suggested I drive down to the site of the old plank road.
\n\"Plank<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in the early 1900’s, automobile travel between Phoenix and San Diego along the southern route was almost impossible because of the deep sand dunes barring the way. Some guy got the idea of building a wooden, plank road across the sand, enabling old Model-T’s and the like, safe passage to and from the coast. It only lasted a few years – drifting sand would bury the road every few days, making it very difficult to keep open. They still keep a piece of the road as a historical site.<\/p>\n

I am happy to report that I’m back riding my motorcycle. I even went a couple miles on a dirt road. It wasn’t hard to get back on the bike but it has been hard to ride when it’s so cold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I may have given you the wrong idea. There is no way, especially this time of year, that I’m even thinking of attempting a thruhike of the PCT. I know that’s what I said before I started the AT, but rest assured that, if nominated I will not hike. The PCT is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}