{"id":44,"date":"2010-11-23T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-11-23T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T00:04:00","slug":"dirty-pictures-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/dirty-pictures-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Pictures of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 I embarked on a 1,200 mile (1,931 km) thru-hike of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pnt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Northwest Trail<\/a>.&nbsp; I count this trip as one of the most life-changing endeavors I&#8217;ve ever undertaken.&nbsp; I spent sixty-one days in June, July, and August without once sleeping in a bed or even under a proper roof (unless you count outhouses and baseball diamond dugouts as proper rooves).&nbsp; During the duration of the journey I encountered very few people, took only four rest days and about as many showers.&nbsp; Below is a self-portrait of me at about my toughest.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3198\/3062732526_c70294016e_b.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3198\/3062732526_c70294016e_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>Sam Haraldson in the Paysaten Wilderness of Washington State<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/?do=showproduct&#038;id=114>Thoughts to family and friends sent from the trail<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?trailname=4311\">Daily entries at TrailJournals.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 I embarked on a 1,200 mile (1,931 km) thru-hike of the Pacific Northwest Trail.&nbsp; I count this trip as one of the most life-changing endeavors I&#8217;ve ever undertaken.&nbsp; I spent sixty-one days in June, July, and August without once sleeping in a bed or even under a proper roof (unless you count outhouses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hike","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}