{"id":2137,"date":"2026-08-12T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/desert-miles-in-southern-utah\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:30:00","slug":"desert-miles-in-southern-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/desert-miles-in-southern-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert miles in southern Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riding in the desert is mostly a question of water. I carried eight litres on this trip, which makes a loaded bike feel like a small car, and still refilled at every spring the map promised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The days had a simple rhythm: ride from first light until about eleven, find shade, sleep through the worst of the heat, then ride again until the rock turned red in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sand is the real climb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The climbs were never the hard part. Deep sand was. Wide tyres at low pressure helped, and so did accepting that some sections would be walked however strong I felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At night the sky is so dark that the Milky Way throws shadows. That alone is worth the water weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slickrock, sand and a lot of water weight: a week of early starts and long lunches in the shade across the canyon country of southern Utah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","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\/2137","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=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}