{"id":133,"date":"2010-11-22T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2011-02-08T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T09:17:00","slug":"day-26-puerto-ibanez-to-perito-moreno-108k-all-dirt-1275m-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Day 26 Puerto Ibanez to Perito Moreno 108k all dirt 1275m climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_229\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-29-Puerto-Ibanez-to-Perito-Moreno-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229\" title=\"Stage-29-Puerto-Ibanez-to-Perito-Moreno-7.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-29-Puerto-Ibanez-to-Perito-Moreno-7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-29-Puerto-Ibanez-to-Perito-Moreno-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-29-Puerto-Ibanez-to-Perito-Moreno-7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wonderful Desert Rocks <\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are told the steepest hill on the trip to start.\u00a0 1 in 10 approx.\u00a0 All dirt. Fortunately the wind behind us.\u00a0 the first steep hill partially paved but a long 10 k. As we are now on the dry side of the Andes the country changes. no trees and scrubby desert with low ground cover.<\/p>\n<p>The lake is a magnificant green colour.\u00a0 Pass an armadillo on the track but too quick to phots.\u00a0 rugged mountains surround where the wind has etched away some of the rock outer layers to leave interesting fingers pointing to the sky. Always the lake to the right.\u00a0 &lt;many uphill climbs on the dirt road.\u00a0 one of the riders Dick about my age falls with a suspected broken rib where he hit a rock.<\/p>\n<p>Finally make it to the lunch truck after a big effort pretty tired.\u00a0 Thought about not riding in the afternoon but was pursuaded to ride on as mostly downhill with the wind behind.\u00a0 Set off with Victor and youg medico from Brisbane.\u00a0 &lt;lots of corrugations make it tough on the hands.\u00a0 Stop every so often to stretch.\u00a0 Generally good wide dirt road with some tracks for fast biking.\u00a0 &lt;powerful wind at times am able to cruise along at 30k.<\/p>\n<p>Get to camp at 5.30 time for a warm shower and wash a few clothes and dinner.\u00a0\u00a0 Early to bed ready for another big day of 120 tomorrow half sealed .\u00a0 &lt;my try to find a drink with Alfonse later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are told the steepest hill on the trip to start.\u00a0 1 in 10 approx.\u00a0 All dirt. Fortunately the wind behind us.\u00a0 the first steep hill partially paved but a long 10 k. As we are now on the dry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/?p=133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}