{"id":2277,"date":"2015-09-16T13:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2021-10-06T20:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T03:25:54","slug":"2015-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"2015 Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I carved some time out of July to do <a title=\"Almost a circle\" href=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/?p=1992\">a self-powered trip<\/a> along the Silvery Slocan Circle Route. I did it counter-clockwise over three days, combining kayaking, running and road-biking. This year, with <a title=\"(Two) New wheels\" href=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/?p=2220\">a new-to-me road bike<\/a>\u00a0recently acquired, I decided to do the same route all on two wheels. I rode clockwise for a switch, and over two relatively short days. The first day took me over the pass,\u00a0through Kaslo, down the North Shore of Kootenay Lake to Nelson, for a total of about 112 km and 1700 metres of total climbing. The second day brought me home through the Slocan Valley, for about 100 km and a bit less climbing, about 1500 metres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.20.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2275\" src=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.20-500x263.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-09-16 13.10.20\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.20-500x263.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.20-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.20.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.46.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2276 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-16-13.10.46-500x262.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-09-16 13.10.46\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_2517-e1442435051130.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2278\" src=\"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_2517-e1442435051130-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2517\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>Because my overnight waypoint was the Nelson house, I was able to ride almost entirely unencumbered. I carried only water, snack, debit card, phone\u00a0and my little\u00a0bike toolkit. Knowing that all the comforts of home were already waiting for me in Nelson\u00a0was almost as good as having a support team travelling with me!<\/p>\n<p>The weather was great: cool but\u00a0sunny. The seasons seemed to actually turn while I was riding. On Friday I\u00a0had noticed that\u00a0the birch leaves were looking paler as if they were getting ready to turn; by the time I arrived home on Sunday they were yellow and flying off the trees in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>I like giving myself\u00a0a multi-day\u00a0solo challenge every year. It gives me time to just be with myself. I come out of it feeling like I&#8217;ve accomplished something, renewed. I think this is a tradition I&#8217;ll try to continue. I wonder what 2016&#8217;s challenge will be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I carved some time out of July to do a self-powered trip along the Silvery Slocan Circle Route. I did it counter-clockwise over three days, combining kayaking, running and road-biking. This year, with a new-to-me road bike\u00a0recently acquired, I decided to do the same route all on two wheels. I rode clockwise for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-active","category-the-natural-world","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}