{"id":1,"date":"2016-07-13T20:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:33:53","slug":"muirathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/muirathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Muir-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015\u00a0I tried to get in a marathon distance just climbing from Paradise to Camp Muir three times. \u00a0I made it twice, but was lured off by the promise of a beer and burger at the Naches Tavern \u2013 a failure compounded by the fact the Siren who lured me on those rocks accidentally drove home the wrong direction, so I had to sip my failure beer alone.<\/p>\n<p>For Bastille Day 2016, along with Arthur Martineau I managed\u00a0to go the distance. \u00a0We took almost (but not quite) 12 hours to for the effort, with climb times of roughly 1:50, 2:15, and 2:30, slowing as the snow softened along with our resolve. \u00a0Arthur&#8217;s descents were magical peregrinations, while\u00a0mine were chaotic slip-and-slide demonstrations of awkwardness.<\/p>\n<p>And since I love to encourage others to have similarly bad ideas, here is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/mora\/planyourvisit\/upload\/camp-muir-route-with-get-your-bearings-map-oct11.pdf\">Route and bearings<\/a> <em>(National Park Service PDF).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Muir\">A few things<\/a> about the nutty Scot for which the camp is named<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" style=\"width: 3504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Muir-a-thon.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Muir-a-thon.gif\" alt=\"Route from Paradise to Camp Muir\" width=\"3504\" height=\"2092\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Course map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015\u00a0I tried to get in a marathon distance just climbing from Paradise to Camp Muir three times. \u00a0I made it twice, but was lured off by the promise of a beer and burger at the Naches Tavern \u2013 a failure compounded by the fact the Siren who lured me on those rocks accidentally drove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","tag-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}