{"id":901,"date":"2018-11-16T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/?p=901"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:24:21","slug":"bridle-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/bridle-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridle Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, I only made it to Bridle Creek, about \u00bd way to Mareeba, which was the intent. But it was a lot of pushing uphill with slopes of up to 25%. By 2pm I reached Bridle Creek and decided against going further. The day started at 20\u00ba, high humidity, so sweating like a pig (do pigs sweat so much?), and it was 35\u00ba by the time I called it quits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-907 failed alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_0829266260758518036199647.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_0829266260758518036199647.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_0829266260758518036199647-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_0829266260758518036199647-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_0829266260758518036199647-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_0829266260758518036199647-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also there were numerous locked gates where I had to unhitch BOB and take off heavy water bottles to be able to lift bike and BOB over. Very slow going indeed, and of course I am nowhere nearly in shape yet!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"failed wp-image-908 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_1020156936853453956346432.jpg\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_1020156936853453956346432.jpg 1512w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_1020156936853453956346432-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_1020156936853453956346432-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_1020156936853453956346432-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181116_1020156936853453956346432-528x704.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have so far been able to avoid these innocent looking strings. I believe they are called Lawyer Vine, they just won&#8217;t let go, and can quickly rip your clothing and skin to shreds.<\/p>\n<p>Total kms today: 14. Uphill pushing is a bit of a guess because my bicycle computer only shows 250m, while the highest point was already 300m above my starting elevation. Plus all the downs and ups I reckon it might me more like 600-700m. Doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but it was very hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, I only made it to Bridle Creek, about \u00bd way to Mareeba, which was the intent. But it was a lot of pushing uphill with slopes of up to 25%. By 2pm I reached Bridle Creek and decided against going further. The day started at 20\u00ba, high humidity, so sweating like a pig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}