{"id":36,"date":"2008-08-17T02:31:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T06:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-12-13T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T21:20:00","slug":"the-silver-spur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Spur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oregon! OR the whole state is perhaps one of the most dynamic places I’ve been; Sunday: big city, Monday: ocean, Tuesday: ocean & mountains, Wednesday: mountains and lava lakes, Thursday: great beer & incredible people, Friday: high desert & badlands (head winds) and Saturday: horrible winds, high heat and desert mountain ranges.<\/div>\n
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Yesterday we traversed 106 miles of the high desert from Bend to Riley passing through Brothers, which has a population of 10 hearty soles. \u00a0The head wind was as potent as the 110 degree heat baking our skin.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I have never been in the desert, never heard a rattle snake and since last Saturday I have seen three and heard many.<\/div>\n
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This evening I’m sitting outside our hotel in the only town for 127 miles – Burns. \u00a0I can not believe that there is this much open space in our country, its amazing. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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As we were riding we could see the road stretch on for miles & watch the heat, smolder up on the tar as if it were a river. \u00a0There is no shade out here, just fences, dirt and a lot of trucks. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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We ventured further into the desert abyss today – with another fierce uncontrollable head wind, forcing me to fall off the bike three times.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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The last hour up Stinking water pass was incredibly beautiful – but the pain was too much to continue.<\/div>\n
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We’ve met so many terrific people in Oregon who have gotten behind our advocacy mission. \u00a0I would like to mention the great support we received from\u00a0Daniella & Elliot Crowder, owners of Bike Newport- an amazing shop, who gave us some additional gear for our mountain bikes. \u00a0Also, the hospitality of\u00a0Patti & Jeff Evans, a Bend couple who really believe in what we’re doing. \u00a0They are both incredible cyclists and human beings. \u00a0While out on a brand new Scott Plasma, Jeff was clobbered by a car, his\u00a0fourth\u00a0car\/bike accident where he broke his fibula. \u00a0It’s been 10 weeks and he’s back on his bike(s) limping when he walks but his fervent focus on staying active is intoxicating. \u00a0I hope that I can ride with him and Patti soon.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Oregon! OR the whole state is perhaps one of the most dynamic places I’ve been; Sunday: big city, Monday: ocean, Tuesday: ocean & mountains, Wednesday: mountains and lava lakes, Thursday: great beer & incredible people, Friday: high desert & badlands (head winds) and Saturday: horrible winds, high heat and desert mountain ranges. Yesterday we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pearsons-notes-on-the-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.longbikeback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}