{"id":3311,"date":"2021-08-11T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/day-8-celebrating-100-miles\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:25:57","slug":"day-8-celebrating-100-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/day-8-celebrating-100-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Celebrating 100 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Location: Bear Lake Camp (100.3 miles)<\/b><\/div>\n
Distance: (12.0 miles)<\/b><\/div>\n
Achievements: 100 Miles<\/b><\/div>\n

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When I initially talked with Harriet, she said that I would be surprised by the difficulty.  Talking to southbounders, they said they averaged 10 miles a day.  I’m here to confirm that this trail has been rough the past two days.<\/div>\n
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The PCT is notorious for its climbs.  The hike into Wrightwood is a 16 mile, no water, uphill climb.  There are all the mountain passes where I would spend half the day assending up the pass.  What could the SHT do to compare to that?<\/div>\n
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Turns out the 12 miles without more than a minute of flat space before more altitude change is really exhausting.<\/div>\n
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I reached Bear Lake at three, giving me a decent body of water so I can rinse out my clothes.  When I returned, there was another hiker camped with me.<\/div>\n
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He is from Madison, was a councilor at my children’s highschool for a while, and a really nice guy.<\/div>\n
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Better yet, he chooses to go stoveless so he can carry bourbon instead.  We talked until it was dark.  An awesome day.<\/div>\n
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Location: Bear Lake Camp (100.3 miles) Distance: (12.0 miles) Achievements: 100 Miles When I initially talked with Harriet, she said that I would be surprised by the difficulty.  Talking to southbounders, they said they averaged 10 miles a day.  I’m here to confirm that this trail has been rough the past two days. The PCT … Continue reading Day 8: Celebrating 100 Miles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","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\/3311","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=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}