{"id":3091,"date":"2021-07-22T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/fire-and-water\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:21:15","slug":"fire-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/fire-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/217259195_4669717976389972_6888337054746164008_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1440\" data-original-width=\"1920\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/217259195_4669717976389972_6888337054746164008_n.jpg\" width=\"586\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The big topic this week on the Superior Hiking Trail is the dry conditions on trail.&nbsp; The Superior National Forest has banned campfires.&nbsp; A number of water sources are stagnet or completely dry.&nbsp; This has caused a widespread panic and a number of people on the page have announced that they are cancelling their plans for this year.<\/p>\n<p>As a successful PCT hiker, I know a thing or two about hot, dry conditions and long water carries.&nbsp; Should I worry?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll make some adjustments.&nbsp; First, I will add another Smart Water Bottle, increasing my carrying capacity of three liters.&nbsp; I will also have a two liter bladder for a dirty water bag.<\/p>\n<p>There is a hiker who just finished a thru-hike and it was a struggle for him.&nbsp; What I don&#8217;t know is how many miles they were hiking per day.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve sent him a message asking for a bit of a scouting report.&nbsp; Hopefully that will clear things up.<\/p>\n<p>tHarriet has said that The rule of thumb is that if the water source says creek or pond, it is dry.&nbsp; If it is river or lake, it has water.&nbsp; I will camel up and carry more.&nbsp; No big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big topic this week on the Superior Hiking Trail is the dry conditions on trail.&nbsp; The Superior National Forest has banned campfires.&nbsp; A number of water sources are stagnet or completely dry.&nbsp; This has caused a widespread panic and a number of people on the page have announced that they are cancelling their plans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/fire-and-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire and Water<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sht2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}