{"id":216,"date":"2016-05-10T21:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/?p=216"},"modified":"2020-10-11T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:48:00","slug":"510-mile-196-0-gila-river-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/2016\/05\/10\/510-mile-196-0-gila-river-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/10 mile 196.0 Gila River Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"

What can I say. Wow, what a day. I didn’t sleep well, but got up and was hiking by 5:50. I used MIO Energy for the first time. It has caffeine. I felt I was going to need it.<\/p>\n

The day started with a difficult 6 mile climb. It took me hours. It was so steep I would count 30 steps up and then wait to regain my breath. Repeat a million times. It was rocky and uneven too. I ascended from 6500 to 8000 feet. At the end I was so out of it I missed my turn and continued up the wrong trail for another 0.2 mile before I realized it. That was a total waste of my precious energy.<\/p>\n

Then came the 7 mile downhill. This was similarly uneven, rocky, and steep. I had to plant my poles each step to slow myself down. That took even longer. I descended from 8000 to 5200 feet. By then I should have been done for the day, but…<\/p>\n

At the bottom was the Gila River. It was delightful. The river meanders and the trail switches from side to side. You have to make numerous river crossings. Most are ankle deep, but a few were mid-thigh. The water was cool and refreshing, but now I have wet socks and shoes to put on tomorrow. Also one of the other hikers fell in. So far I haven’t. I’m only a few miles upstream and have crossed over a dozen times. I hear that there are over 85 crossings. At least I don’t have to worry about water to drink.<\/p>\n

I was trying to get my 20 miles in for the day, but I finally had to stop out of sheer exhaustion.<\/p>\n

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What can I say. Wow, what a day. I didn’t sleep well, but got up and was hiking by 5:50. I used MIO Energy for the first time. It has caffeine. I felt I was going to need it. The day started with a difficult 6 mile climb. It took me hours. It was so … Continue reading “5\/10 mile 196.0 Gila River Alternative”<\/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-216","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\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}