{"id":41,"date":"2008-06-27T01:11:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T05:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:31:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:31:30","slug":"june-27-white-river-to-rabbit-blanket-lake-129km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"June 27: White River to Rabbit Blanket Lake (~129km)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a reasonably comfortable night in the park in White River, and a fairly sane and straightforward time breaking camp without really having to work around rain or bugs, I was able to hit the road by 10:15am in fairly nice weather. And then about 5km into the ride, going over a stone, I broke a spoke on the rear wheel.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, it was non-drive-side, and I still had some spares from back in Swift Current, so I went and replaced it without even pulling the wheel from the frame. Got everything reasonably true, and was back rolling again in about half an hour.<\/p>\n

It was hot and humid, and the winds were generally from the southwest, so having actually turned to be heading South instead of East (this change happened a little past White river, as opposed to the change in signage, which happened well before), I now had headwinds instead of tailwinds again.<\/p>\n

The scenery was, for the most part, quite similar to previous scenery (and to some of the less impressive parts of it at that) that after a few hours, I decided to photograph some flowers in the ditch just to have a picture for the day, and a bit of what I was seeing but hadn’t yet taken a picture of:<\/p>\n

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I made it down to Wawa, and decided that I hadn’t had any greens in a while, and should have myself a late lunch in town to get some greens into me. In a particular stroke of luck, the first restaurant I came to and thought of as a suitable stop was just setting out an all-you-can-eat dinner buffet. Naturally, I pulled in, loaded up on all sorts of food (including greens), and got some information from the staff on where I’d likely be able to find camping if I kept going.<\/p>\n

Coming into Lake Superior Provincial Park, one of the moose warning signs struck me as having a rather large scope, so I also took a picture of it:<\/p>\n

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I also decided to record a sign that had me thinking “back in BC, they wouldn’t even have wasted their time with this”:<\/p>\n

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and I also got some more nice scenery:<\/p>\n

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Being in a provincial park, I felt that I might encounter a little more trouble ditch camping that I would elsewhere, so I slogged on to (and coughed up for) a campsite at Rabbit Blanket Lake (which also scored me a chance to shower after a long hot day, so…)<\/p>\n

I also noted that I was less than 200km from Sault Ste. Marie, so I could theoretically get the rest of the way there with a pair of <100km rides (though the chances of finding a decent place to stop somewhere before riding 100km, but after passing 100km to the Soo seemed pretty slim). Still, it was a nice thought.\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bikely map After a reasonably comfortable night in the park in White River, and a fairly sane and straightforward time breaking camp without really having to work around rain or bugs, I was able to hit the road by 10:15am in fairly nice weather. And then about 5km into the ride, going over a stone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on","category-ridingdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}