{"id":2094,"date":"2018-06-09T21:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T02:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2018-06-09T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T02:13:28","slug":"out-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Out and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attempted the out and back that is on the High Lonesome race I&#8217;m doing in August. It starts in the ghost town of St Elmo and follows a trail due North over Laws Pass. The pass is 12.3k feet and separates the drainage&#8217;s of Cottonwood and Chalk Creeks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2090 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1222-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1222-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1222-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1222-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1222-624x351.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 4 miles to the top of the pass and about 2,400ft of climb.\u00a0 It&#8217;s another 3 miles down the other side descending about 2,100ft.\u00a0 I then turned around and went back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2092 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1224-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1224-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1224-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1224-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1224-624x351.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2093 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1217-1-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1217-1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1217-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1217-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1217-1-624x351.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2089 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1218-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1218-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1218-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1218-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1218-624x351.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It took me about 4 hours and 40 minutes round trip.\u00a0 Beautiful day, but tiring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2091 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1223-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1223-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1223-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1223-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1223-624x351.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/351;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attempted the out and back that is on the High Lonesome race I&#8217;m doing in August. It starts in the ghost town of St Elmo and follows a trail due North over Laws Pass. The pass is 12.3k feet and separates the drainage&#8217;s of Cottonwood and Chalk Creeks &nbsp; It&#8217;s about 4 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}