{"id":183,"date":"2012-06-13T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2012-06-13T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T04:16:21","slug":"day-18-over-the-top-cross-continental-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/day-18-over-the-top-cross-continental-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 18 Over the top: Cross Continental Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Marias-Pass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Marias-Pass.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Marias-Pass\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-185\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dan-near-Marias-pass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Dan-near-Marias-pass.jpg\" alt=\"Dan riding near Marias pass\" title=\"Dan-near-Marias-pass\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am over the Rocky Mountains! I climbed enough to cross the contenental divide yesterday riding up Going to the<br \/>\nSun Road. I met Dan from Pennsylvania before Marias Pass (5215 feet). We chatted for a while and met again at Brownies Hostel in East Glacier. I almost camped at the pass, but it started raining and the wind was really howling. <\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the climb the grade was almost 15 percent. I was concerned about being able to make it over. After that first &#8220;hill,&#8221; the grades was more moderate and I made it over the top. The rain and wind pushed me downhill to East Glacier. <\/p>\n<p>It has rained part of everyday for more than a week. Tomorrow is supposed to be dry at least after I get out of East Glacier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am over the Rocky Mountains! I climbed enough to cross the contenental divide yesterday riding up Going to the Sun Road. I met Dan from Pennsylvania before Marias Pass (5215 feet). We chatted for a while and met again at Brownies Hostel in East Glacier. I almost camped at the pass, but it started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-segments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}