{"id":145,"date":"2023-06-22T19:51:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2023-06-22T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T02:51:39","slug":"day-5-selkirk-campground-to-hartsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/day-5-selkirk-campground-to-hartsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 Selkirk Campground to Hartsel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The food survived the night and so did we. It really was a stunning campground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selkirk Campground <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With my extra volume I was able to carry some extra food and so I had a real banana with breakfast and now I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019ll get scurvy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ride today was very different and the easiest so far. It was downhill for the first 7-8 miles through the small town of Como. Nothing there at all but it used to be a town where they fixed trains and has a roundabout to turn the trains around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Como<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The remaining miles we\u2019re mostly flat across very different landscape. This was prairie land and we passed several trails including the Apache Trail and Comanche Trail. I imagine once upon a time the prairies were full of Buffalo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elkhorn Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prairie Land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We got to Hartsel around noon. This was supposed to be our destination for the night but we thought there was a lodge but it closed down. It was way too early to call it a day. Or was it, really? We had a monster Pizza and asked our waitress, Shelly, if there were places to stay. There was a guy, Hayden, from Hartsel Ranch having lunch there and they had lodging a couple of miles away. We could camp down by the river and he\u2019d let us use the shower in the lodge. So the decision was made, we were staying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in Hartsel was a roadside stand. I don\u2019t remember the name but it was called something peaches. Anyway, they didn\u2019t have peaches until 4th July but they did have cherry\u2019s and apricots. Delicious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hartsel Ranch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was great to have a hot shower. I washed my clothes in the river and our host dropped of a case of beer. Fantastic! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camping and Relaxing at Hartsel Ranch <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Left over pizza and beer for dinner and we are ready for tomorrow\u2019s ride to Salida. It\u2019s windy with 40% chance of thunderstorms tonight so I might end up sleeping in the barn. We\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had my first puncture today. We rode 40 miles with 1,217ft of climbing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The food survived the night and so did we. It really was a stunning campground. With my extra volume I was able to carry some extra food and so I had a real banana with breakfast and now I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019ll get scurvy! The ride today was very different and the easiest so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socalbrummie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}