{"id":196,"date":"2016-05-04T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/?p=196"},"modified":"2020-10-11T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:48:01","slug":"54-mile-57-9-the-dogs-are-barking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/2016\/05\/04\/54-mile-57-9-the-dogs-are-barking\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/4 mile 57.9 The dogs are barking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke early so I could get on the trail just before sunrise. In the dark I reached for my shoes with my socks stuffed in them. Huh. That’s strange my right shoe is empty. So I feel around and still nothing. I get out my light and they are gone. The left shoe along with its sock is there. It looks like I had a night time visitor who absconded with my right sock and gaiter. I was robbed! So I got out my extra right sock and was good to go. <\/p>\n

I was on trail at 5:30 AM and was doing OK. I have a blister on the inside of my left heel. It’s a nuisance and after a while I just ignore it. Today I was planning to do 20 miles. My first water stop was in 9 miles. After the stop I would be carrying about 5.5L. Heavy! I was going along well with a slight breeze, but the day heated up and I slowed down. On one of my breaks I saw that the next water cache was only two additional miles. So as the day wore on I marched along and then as the heat went up I got slower and slower. By the end my feet were just screening in pain. That is, the dogs were barking. But I made it to the next cache.<\/p>\n

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I woke early so I could get on the trail just before sunrise. In the dark I reached for my shoes with my socks stuffed in them. Huh. That’s strange my right shoe is empty. So I feel around and still nothing. I get out my light and they are gone. The left shoe along … Continue reading “5\/4 mile 57.9 The dogs are barking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brians-blog","category-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}