{"id":736,"date":"2012-06-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:53:28","slug":"day-3-first-divide-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2012\/06\/28\/day-3-first-divide-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 – First Divide Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Day 3 – First Divide Crossing<\/h2><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

June 25, 2012<\/strong>

Start:<\/strong> Just north of Boulton Creek Trading Post<\/em>
Finish:<\/strong> Blue Lake<\/em>

Today\u2019s miles:<\/strong> 36.5<\/em>
Total miles:<\/strong> 97.0<\/em>

Splats:<\/strong> 0<\/em>
Divide crossings:<\/strong> 1<\/em>
Wildlife:<\/strong> prairie dogs (or similar creature), 3 big rabbits with white feet, bald eagle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada –> Mexico<\/span><\/div>
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4%<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>
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Before I left, my friends gave me a pack of \u2018Unicycle\u2019 cards on which they\u2019d written notes and inspirational comments. Well, I don\u2019t really know if they\u2019re inspirational because I\u2019ve only looked at two so far\u2026 I plan to resist the urge to look through them all at once and instead look at one each night. Last night’s card had a drawing of a prairie dog and a hammer, like those games you see at the video arcade where something pops its head out of a hole, and you try to bop it. Wouldn\u2019t you know it, early this morning, I came across a colony of prairie dogs. No, I didn\u2019t bop them. I hope there are no cards here about making friends with a grizzly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In other news, I made my first Continental Divide crossing at Elk Pass. I came across the first snow on the way up, but it was minimal and patchy enough that I could just ride around it. One of the scavenger hunt requests was to do a cartwheel at the divide crossings. Here\u2019s my first cartwheel<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just after the pass, I came across two hikers. Other than them, the only people I saw today were two guys in a truck who stopped to ask if I needed help. I declined and pushed on. I don\u2019t think they quite understood what they were looking at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather was pleasant most of the day, except for getting hailed on in an afternoon thunderstorm. I had just finally dried out my socks and shoes, too\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight, I\u2019m camped out on an emerald blue pond. The water is crystal clear, but the storm washed all the pollen out onto the surface. It still tastes good, though! I spent what felt like 40 minutes trying to hang my bear bag. It\u2019s way up there tonight. I woke up last night thinking a bear was trying to push over the tree with my food in it. Eventually, I realized it was just two trees rubbing together in the breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before I left, my friends gave me a pack of \u2018Unicycle\u2019 cards on which they\u2019d written notes and inspirational comments. Well, I don\u2019t really know if they\u2019re inspirational because I\u2019ve only looked at two so far\u2026 I plan to resist the urge to look through them all at once and instead look at one each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-riding","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}