{"id":3960,"date":"2023-06-07T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2023-06-07T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:00:03","slug":"ride-report-baker-city-or-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2023\/06\/07\/ride-report-baker-city-or-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride report: Baker City, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/embeds?type=trip&#038;id=123797184&#038;title=Baker%20City,%20OR&#038;sampleGraph=true\" style=\"width: 1px; min-width: 100%; height: 700px; border: none\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am writing this post the day after the ride&#8211;technically, my ride ended after midnight, so arguably it is the same day.<\/p>\n<p>I reached Mitchell&#8211;home of the Spoke&#8217;n Hostel&#8211;pretty early and had their spaghetti for breakfast, although the 30-mile climb out of Prineville meant I wasn&#8217;t too early. Mitchell is in a valley, so after that long climb, you give up all that altitude, and then climb it again to get out. By the time I left, the day has heated up.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the rest of the day is a blur. The three big climbs after Mitchell were all late in the ride, well after the halfway point. By the time I finished the second of them, it was chilly enough that I needed my jacket for the descent. After the third, it was cold enough that I needed to add more warm clothes, and my sweat-soaked jersey was chilling me, so I needed to take that off. Finding a place I could even lean my bike took a while, and then I was working in complete darkness. I was exhausted enough that I knew to be concerned about dumb mistakes, and tried to be very methodical. Even so, I rode off without my bone-conduction headset on, but it was hooked around my handlebars, so no loss there.<\/p>\n<p>One minute after I passed the Baker City City limit sign, the sky opened up. I was only in the rain for about 10 minutes but got soaked.<\/p>\n<p>I had set the goal of reaching Baker City because there&#8217;s a bike hostel there. I knew it would be a big push.<\/p>\n<p>It was too long. 195 miles with 5 major climbs. My appetite has been hit-or-miss, and my last solid food of the day wasn&#8217;t sufficient.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/content\/img_5213-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3964\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/content\/img_5214-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3966\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/content\/img_5215-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/content\/img_5216-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3965\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/content\/img_5217-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3969\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this post the day after the ride&#8211;technically, my ride ended after midnight, so arguably it is the same day. I reached Mitchell&#8211;home of the Spoke&#8217;n Hostel&#8211;pretty early and had their spaghetti for breakfast, although the 30-mile climb out of Prineville meant I wasn&#8217;t too early. Mitchell is in a valley, so after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[134,420],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-report","category-tabr-2023","tag-cycling","tag-tabr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}