{"id":1326,"date":"2008-12-07T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2008-12-07T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:25:32","slug":"all-things-considered-this-day-gets-a-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"all things considered, this day gets a D-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro<\/strong> I got to have a sleep-in, because I was doing the Yamnuska Leading on Ice course today.
\nCon<\/strong> Our Jeep still isn’t working, so I had to leave the house early to cycle to the Yamnuska Office.
\nPro<\/strong> Riding around town is always fun, and it was fairly warm this morning.
\nCon<\/strong> I arrived at the offices at 8am (as it instructed on the email I got) and everyone else had apparently been there since 7.30, and they’d been having a pre-course briefing.
\nPro<\/strong> I got to carpool with a nice Japanese girl.
\nCon<\/strong> The other car which held the other three people doing the course, and the guide, quickly disappeared. So much for a convey – oh well, at least he told us where we were going, and we can hopefully remember how to get there.
\nCon<\/strong> We realised after we pass Dead Man’s Flats that the car would not have enough fuel to get to King Creek and back.
\nCon<\/strong> Exshaw petrol station doesn’t open til 10am on Sunday.
\nCon<\/strong> When I phone the guide to let him know we’ll be late, it goes straight to voicemail. Damn.
\nCon<\/strong> We end up driving back to Canmore again just for fuel, as it’s now the closest place that will be open.
\nCon<\/strong> The car will now not go into gear, and is not going anywhere any time soon.
\nPro<\/strong> At least we’re stuck in Canmore, rather than anywhere further afield.
\nCon<\/strong> Get voicemail again when try phoning guide again. Leave message. Get voicemail at Yamnuska too.
\nCon<\/strong> Where we want to go is too far for any of the cab companies.
\nCon<\/strong> The rental car places are closed on Sunday.
\nCon<\/strong> Cannot find anyone with a car I could borrow.
\nPro<\/strong> Having walked back to the Yamnuska offices, they are toasty and warm. I wander round inside and yell to see if anyone is there.
\nCon<\/strong> There is noone there.
\nPro<\/strong> If I was a thief I could steal lots of good things.
\nCon<\/strong> I am not a thief.
\nPro<\/strong> It is snowing pretty fat flakes, and I decide to ride to the Canmore Junkyards – it is Sunday, maybe there will be people I know there.
\nPro<\/strong> I look around and take photos at the Junkyards.
\nCon<\/strong> I do not climb at the Junkyards.
\nPro<\/strong> Cycling in the snow is fun!
\nCon<\/strong> I go back along the powerlines, where there is ice underneath the snow. The ice is less fun, and on a downhill section I lose the back end of my bike and land knee first on the ice.
\nCon<\/strong> My knee hurts rather a lot.
\nCon<\/strong> I have trouble walking now, and cannot bend my knee to ride.
\nPro<\/strong> Nice men from the power company give me a lift in their truck.
\nCon<\/strong> My knee has an increasingly large bloody lump on it.
\nPro<\/strong> The snow is pretty to watch outside the window, and is handy for putting inside a bag to ice my knee with. And I have brownies.<\/p>\n

(Grade subject to revision depending on how this knee injury turns out… and I would love some studded tyres to help with the ice problems, but they weren’t really in the budget… hmm.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pro I got to have a sleep-in, because I was doing the Yamnuska Leading on Ice course today. Con Our Jeep still isn’t working, so I had to leave the house early to cycle to the Yamnuska Office. Pro Riding around town is always fun, and it was fairly warm this morning. Con I arrived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[54,584,580,586,455,583,585,579,582,581],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-general","tag-bike","tag-breakdown","tag-con","tag-ice-climbing","tag-injury","tag-mechanical","tag-not-according-to-plan","tag-pro","tag-rating","tag-yamnuska"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["canada<\/a>","general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["canada<\/span>","general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["bike<\/a>","breakdown<\/a>","con<\/a>","ice climbing<\/a>","injury<\/a>","mechanical<\/a>","not according to plan<\/a>","pro<\/a>","rating<\/a>","yamnuska<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bike<\/span>","breakdown<\/span>","con<\/span>","ice climbing<\/span>","injury<\/span>","mechanical<\/span>","not according to plan<\/span>","pro<\/span>","rating<\/span>","yamnuska<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"11","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 17 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 7.12.2008","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 7.12.2008 2:08 pm","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008 2:25 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}