{"id":843,"date":"2012-07-16T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2024-04-10T21:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T03:47:23","slug":"day-17-butterfly-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2012\/07\/16\/day-17-butterfly-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 – Butterfly Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Day 17 – Butterfly Race<\/h2><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

July 9, 2012<\/strong>

Start: <\/strong>Woodward Creek<\/em>
Finish:<\/strong> stealth camp south of Owl Packer Camp<\/em>

Today\u2019s miles:<\/strong> 36.5<\/em>
Total miles:<\/strong> 468.4<\/em>

Splats:<\/strong> 0<\/em>
Divide crossings:<\/strong> 0<\/em>
Wildlife:<\/strong> bird of prey with fish, lots of deer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada –> Mexico<\/span><\/div>
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17%<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>
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Well, so much for my early start and siesta. [edit: In the previous day’s missing post, I talked about waking up early and taking a siesta today.] I was so comfortable when I woke up that I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to get up and move. Instead, I slept in until the sun started turning my tent into an oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me quite some time to get up on the uni this morning. I\u2019d get up on it, get in a pedal stroke or two, then topple over or have to jump off. Eventually, I did manage to get going. The theme for today\u2019s ride was \u2018slow and steady.\u2019 It was another scorcher, but there were no big climbs, and I took ample breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the slow and steady theme, today’s ride was nothing too noteworthy. There were some lovely views of the huge Swan and Mission Mountains. I didn\u2019t want to interrupt my steady pace, so there are no pictures (the one shown is from tomorrow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I raced a butterfly today, and I won. It came in from my left, and I lurched to the right to avoid a collision (I\u2019ve been known to swerve for butterflies while driving). The race was on. I didn\u2019t see it after a few seconds, so I have to assume I left it in the dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, I head to Seeley Lake to resupply. The guidebook describes challenging terrain for the stretch, so if it\u2019s getting late, I may consider camping just short of town and heading in the following morning to save money on lodging. I should have just enough food to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, so much for my early start and siesta. [edit: In the previous day’s missing post, I talked about waking up early and taking a siesta today.] I was so comfortable when I woke up that I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to get up and move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1733,"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":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding","category-montana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}