{"id":292,"date":"2010-06-09T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/?p=292"},"modified":"2010-06-21T02:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:32:18","slug":"day-8-halfway-to-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 – Halfway to Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wed 9th June 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

After returning to the campsite last night I discovered that both our neighbours had donated huge amounts of pizza to us so the beef jerky was spared. We ate what we could, having already had our dinner but some was left over. Chris decided he would have it for his breakfast and left it in the porch of his tent. In the middle of the night Chris realized he was no longer alone and woke up to find a local cat enjoying the rest of the pizza. Chris tried to salvage what he could but it was too late. At least it wasn’t a grizzly.<\/p>\n

When we finally got to bed it began to rain and then rained hard all night. In the morning we had to keep everything in the tents until it was packed and safe from the rain. That was quite difficult in a small tent not large enough to swing a cat. (Chris should know all about that)<\/p>\n

After a cereal breakfast we set off at 6:30am and the rain eased. The ride to the Idaho border at Brownlee was very picturesque and mostly downhill. It was easy riding and not too warm.<\/p>\n

\"Lake<\/a>

Great views this morning - not unlike Scotland<\/p><\/div>\n

At Brownlee there was a steep and long climb up to 4,100ft and at the bottom the sun came out to make it very warm. We climbed it without any problems but when we reached the top some threatening clouds were rolling towards us. Within minutes the heavens opened and we struggled to get our waterproofs on in time. We were stuck in a thunder storm with really heavy rain and it seemed to be following us. We made our way to the town of Cambridge and rested\u00a0 there, finally eating the beef jerky, while the storm passed over.<\/p>\n

\"Cambridge,<\/a>

Sheltering in Cambridge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chris\"<\/a>

I think a bad knee is the least of his worries<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Alan's<\/a>

Alan's Bike - We'll show Sherman tomorrow<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Council<\/a>

Approaching Council - will this road ever end?<\/p><\/div>\n

The final 20miles to Council were hard work into a headwind but we arrived at 5:10pm despite the clocks going forward an hour at the Idaho border (we are now 7hrs behind UK time). After buying our food we noticed a very dark cloud that was heading our way. A local lady told us there was a flash flood warning for the town until midnight. Unsure what to do we played safe and booked into a motel. It was the right choice because within 5 mins of being there the worst storm we had every seen passed over with hail the size of marbles. So glad were weren’t in the campsite.<\/p>\n

\"Thunder<\/a>

The storm from our motel room<\/p><\/div>\n

Before I close this blog Chris would like to pass on a tip: When wearing open toed sandals, do not pour boiling water into a cup from a saucepan without a pouring lip when the cup is directly above your toes. A good tip if you ask me.<\/p>\n

Total Mileage – 79 miles<\/p>\n

Time in Saddle – 7 hrs 28 mins<\/p>\n

Total Climbing – 4,207 ft<\/p>\n

Bananas – 4 each today. Total for ride will be posted tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wed 9th June 2010 After returning to the campsite last night I discovered that both our neighbours had donated huge amounts of pizza to us so the beef jerky was spared. We ate what we could, having already had our dinner but some was left over. Chris decided he would have it for his breakfast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}