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Mile 209.5 to 219.5 – 10 miles total hiked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this day started off at where I ended two days ago at the interstate 10 underpass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hate then headed north and alongside a wind farm for quite a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I hiked through one of three box canyons I would be negotiating this day. Box canyons are those dead end valleys that you see in the old westerns. No way out once you get to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except the climb, endless switchbacks until you reach the top of the ridge and then you go down again usually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I reached the large flood basin of the White River before settling down for a night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomorrow would bring the Mission Creek drainage area that was destroyed heavily in 2024. It would be quite a challenge to get through that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mile 209.5 to 219.5 – 10 miles total hiked So this day started off at where I ended two days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PCT DAY 21","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-ive-been","tag-35","tag-pct2026"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_6288.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg6j8i-2gm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}