{"id":3661,"date":"2016-07-18T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2016-07-14T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T19:03:25","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-endless-switchbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-endless-switchbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Endless Switchbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he second half of the Valcarlos route is pretty much nothing but highway through increasingly alpine forest. The slope and the trees do a good job of hiding the road ahead, but it&#8217;s switchback after switchback like some Sisyphusian nightmare. It didn&#8217;t help that it was hot and sunny. I think we all got sunburns. Towards the end, Penny and I took turns carrying Francine&#8217;s pack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?attachment_id=3662\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3662\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k.jpg\" alt=\"25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/25539292394_a5a4a1de21_k-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 30 March 2016<br \/>\nPlace: Latter part of the Valcarlos route (Navarra, Spain)<\/p>\n<p>And yes, that&#8217;s snow in the photo. It&#8217;s probably close to 80\u00b0 F, so you can imagine how much snow they must have had during the snowstorm the previous week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second half of the Valcarlos route is pretty much nothing but highway through increasingly alpine forest. The slope and the trees do a good job of hiding the road ahead, but it&#8217;s switchback after switchback like some Sisyphusian nightmare. It didn&#8217;t help that it was hot and sunny. I think we all got sunburns. Towards the end, Penny and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}