{"id":3352,"date":"2024-03-05T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-calm-before-the-storm\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:29:02","slug":"the-calm-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-calm-before-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calm Before the Storm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/th-1490579864.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"474\" data-original-width=\"474\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/th-1490579864.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I woke up extra early today to adjust for tomorrow.&nbsp; I spent the time double checking my gear compared to my list on LighterPack.com.&nbsp; It is good I did.&nbsp; I discovered that I forgot to pack two items.&nbsp; One is not a big deal.&nbsp; The other was!<\/p>\n<p>I have a pair of headphones I&#8217;m taking that was in my winter jacket.&nbsp; Not a big deal.&nbsp; I can pick up a pair very easily.<\/p>\n<p>What I forgot to take was the bottle attachment for my Sawyer Squeeze so I can screw on one liter bottles.&nbsp; Turning a Sawyer Squeeze into a gravity feed system saves me a ton of time on trail.&nbsp; Purifying water becomes a passive event.&nbsp; I took it off when I flushed and primed it a couple of weeks ago and failed to put it back on.&nbsp; I could still use it, but it would be messy.<\/p>\n<p>So, the lesson for today is use LighterPack to make a checklist while you are weighing each item.&nbsp; Then when you are ready to go, as you pack, mark off each item.<\/p>\n<p>With that exercise complete, I&#8217;ll just relax.&nbsp; I have a very busy day tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up extra early today to adjust for tomorrow.&nbsp; I spent the time double checking my gear compared to my list on LighterPack.com.&nbsp; It is good I did.&nbsp; I discovered that I forgot to pack two items.&nbsp; One is not a big deal.&nbsp; The other was! I have a pair of headphones I&#8217;m taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-calm-before-the-storm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Calm Before the Storm&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}