{"id":15589,"date":"2022-05-24T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T00:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=15589"},"modified":"2022-06-20T03:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:26:30","slug":"transamerica-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/transamerica-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom to Dillon. TransAmerica day 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wisdom to Dillon. 113.63km. 804m ascent. 5h30 ride time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a day!  Huge skies, cold but clear and sunny \u2600\ufe0f <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"15591\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=15591\" data-orig-file=\"\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Piers Eyre-Walker&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-M1MarkIII&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Montana&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1653294172&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;creamteam&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;TransAmTrail&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TransAmTrail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Montana&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"\" 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kind postmistress made us coffee (no charge!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"15593\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=15593\" data-orig-file=\"\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Piers Eyre-Walker&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-M1MarkIII&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Montana&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1653297413&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;creamteam&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;TransAmTrail&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TransAmTrail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Montana&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"\" 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Huge skies, cold but clear and sunny \u2600\ufe0f We had 2 climbs and another highest peak at 2,243m on the Big Hole pass and we have been maintaining altitude above 1600m for several days now The views were breathtaking with snow covered mountains&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[14,54,60,69,20],"class_list":["post-15589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trans-american-bike-trail","tag-bike","tag-holiday","tag-hostel","tag-mountain","tag-tat","category-22","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8952.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15600,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/05\/25\/transamerica-day-22\/","url_meta":{"origin":15589,"position":0},"title":"Dillon to Ennis. 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