{"id":5314,"date":"2014-09-21T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2014-10-04T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T03:22:56","slug":"riding-200km-one-sunny-september-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=5314","title":{"rendered":"Riding 200km one sunny September Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took my Surly Karate Monkey, loaded it up with food and water, and headed out&#8230; at about 10am, because there may have been sleeping in, and disorganisation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Bikes\/Bikes-2014\/i-r6qJbgS\/0\/X2\/20140921_102720-X2.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along the Legacy Trail and into Banff.  A stop at Wildflower Bakery you say? And to the grocery store &#8211; nutella croissants you say? I don&#8217;t mind if I do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Bikes\/Bikes-2014\/i-CkNXwWK\/0\/X2\/20140921_113406-X2.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then up Goat Creek towards Canmore, south on Spray Lakes Road for a mercifully brief stretch before heading to the west side of Spray Lakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Bikes\/Bikes-2014\/i-dMnKKvW\/0\/X2\/20140921_135532-X2.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South and south along the deserted west side of Spray Lakes, then bike out through Mount Shark.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Bikes\/Bikes-2014\/i-SNtPMJX\/0\/X2\/20140921_141558-X2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South at Engadine Lodge, down to the end of the road, and then north along Highway 40.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Bikes\/Bikes-2014\/i-X6xKvjH\/0\/X2\/20140921_154427-X2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then because it&#8217;s getting dark, home to Canmore via the 1A and Exshaw, rather than over Skogan Pass. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Bikes\/Bikes-2014\/i-qtFnPrL\/0\/XL\/200km-XL.jpg\" width=\"849\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts of the ride&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scroggin is inherently vulnerable<\/li>\n<li>Wildflower Bakery is awesome\n<\/li>\n<li>I like Goat Creek much better in this direction\n<\/li>\n<li>Tether your GPS\n<\/li>\n<li>Rotate your owl\n<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re feeling far too clean, riding along Spray Lakes Road on a busy Sunday is a great way to address this problem\n<\/li>\n<li>We should go and bikepack\/camp along West Spray &#8211; especially now when the campground is closed\n<\/li>\n<li>I saw a bat!\n<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s beautiful along here &#8211; especially when you consider the strip of dust hanging on the far side of the lake.\n<\/li>\n<li>This is a bit spooky and deserted. I will sing loudly and yell a lot.\n<\/li>\n<li>This service station is open!? I love icecream! I love cold drinks! All hail the end of water rationing!\n<\/li>\n<li>Riding on asphalt is waaay faster than dirt roads.\n<\/li>\n<li>You should start this ride earlier or bring better lights if you want to be able to ride over Skogan or Jewell Pass\n<\/li>\n<li>A helmet light would be good to prevent roadside animals and noises being scarier than they have to be.\n<\/li>\n<li>Please don&#8217;t eat me, barky dog!\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure if I remember how to be people any more.\n<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s this? A warm plate of freshly cooked dinner, for me?  I&#8217;ll take two!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my Surly Karate Monkey, loaded it up with food and water, and headed out&#8230; at about 10am, because there may have been sleeping in, and disorganisation. Along the Legacy Trail and into Banff. A stop at Wildflower Bakery you say? And to the grocery store &#8211; nutella croissants you say? I don&#8217;t mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,24,1,17],"tags":[1443,1513,1444,1514,240],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-canada","category-general","category-trip-reports","tag-karate-monkey","tag-long-day","tag-rohloff","tag-solo","tag-surly"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/images\/20140921_140421-X2-300x168.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=29\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=24\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">canada<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">trip reports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">canada<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">trip reports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">karate monkey<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">long day<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">rohloff<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">solo<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">surly<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">karate monkey<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">long day<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">rohloff<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">solo<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">surly<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 21.9.2014","modified":"Updated on 4.10.2014"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 21.9.2014 10:59 pm","modified":"Updated on 4.10.2014 9:22 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5319,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}