{"id":488,"date":"2009-07-19T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:13:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:13:05","slug":"wet-greeting-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/wet-greeting-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet Greeting in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday wasn&#8217;t an &#8220;easy&#8221; day after all &#8211; after the first 150m hill right after the Teslin bridge with cold muscles at the start of the ride there were many more hills, for a total of 1600m vertical and 109km. While I dodged most dark rain clouds throughout the day, I got hit hard by rain 15km before Swift River:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/WetGreetingInBC.jpg\" alt=\"Hard rain in BC on the last 15km to Swift River\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The day had started very sunny, but also very hilly. Right after the Teslin bridge is a nice overlook:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BikeAtTeslinOverlook.jpg\" alt=\"Bike at Teslin overlook\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one point in the afternoon I was so hot that I went swimming with bike pants and jersey in the Morley River, just like I had earlier in the Yukon between Beaver Creek and Burwash Landing.<\/p>\n<p>Dark clouds created beautiful scenery, with many shades of green, blue and grey. Wouldn&#8217;t have been so bad had I not gotten completely wet in the last hour of the ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/StormClouds.jpg\" alt=\"Patches of dark clouds and sunlight over British Columbia forest\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that I have crossed the Continental Divide I have more favorable Westerly winds and dry forecast, so today&#8217;s ride to Watson Lake should be somewhat better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday wasn&#8217;t an &#8220;easy&#8221; day after all &#8211; after the first 150m hill right after the Teslin bridge with cold muscles at the start of the ride there were many more hills, for a total of 1600m vertical and 109km. While I dodged most dark rain clouds throughout the day, I got hit hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}