{"id":2136,"date":"2026-08-26T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/logging-roads-in-the-rain\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:20:00","slug":"logging-roads-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/logging-roads-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Logging roads in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western Oregon is laced with logging roads, thousands of kilometres of well-built gravel that almost nobody drives outside the working season. On a wet weekday in August, I saw two trucks in three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rain changes these roads completely. The dust settles, the forest smells of cedar, and the clouds sit low enough in the valleys that every climb ends in fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Riding wet, staying warm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trick is to stop being precious about getting wet and focus on staying warm instead: a thin wool layer, a shell you can open on the climbs, and a dry set of clothes that never leaves its bag until camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I rode 210 kilometres on this loop and never once wished it had been sunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Oregon has more gravel than anyone could ride in a lifetime. In the rain, it is also the emptiest place I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-routes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}