{"id":2012,"date":"2022-08-27T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2022-08-27T02:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T02:59:46","slug":"day-8-yellow-poplars-soaring-eagles-a-grey-water-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2022\/08\/27\/day-8-yellow-poplars-soaring-eagles-a-grey-water-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Yellow Poplars, Soaring Eagles &#038; A Grey Water Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>dawned SUNNY and glorious \u2013 early brekkie of bagels, granola \u2013 and we were ready to head off super early\u2026\u2026and then a funny smell from the RV bathroom, and it wasn\u2019t one of us. Just as we had the water fiasco (no way we went through 170L in 2d) we have had a grey water fiasco (despite the monitor saying only mildly full) \u2013 it backed up into the shower and soaked all of our paper products\u2026and boy did it STINK\u2026\u2026\u2026.and there is no store from here to McPherson\u2026\u2026..FUN TIMES!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank god for Dave who is the King of RV everything! And got it fixed \u2013 we had to remove all of the soggy wet paper (think active gagging) stuff while Suneet held the hefty garbage bag\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally we started the ride, and lo and behold the photographer who told us that the ride up to Eagle Plains was the worst climb was right. Just as we got going it started to rain and by the time we hit the ridge there was some hail. Farid and I tried valiantly to get the sat system working at the ridge as we were high up but funny thing, Canada Satellite says this system doesn\u2019t work well above 61 degrees, why would you sell something like that in Canada given our geography? (just saying)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ascent &gt;913m (I forgot to turn my watch on for part of it\u2026\u2026) \u2013 max incline 9%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Descent 775m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rode out of the weather onto the \u2018plain\u2019 and thought \u2018who put the hills in the plains?\u2019 In any case by the time we hit camp at approx. 59km it was absolutely gorgeous! We saw an eagle en route. The road is living up to its challenges with deep seated rocky centre, like a Roman road, and soft edges, as well as potholes and some ridges \u2013 impacted the max speed which was about 54 km on a stupendous downhill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camp is at the top of a hill \u2013 trees are only about 15 feet high, all the Poplar are yellow and the sky feels like you could reach out and touch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We made nachos, cheese, hot peppers, salsa, gauc and sour cream appy, sorry to say this but our table is the toilet seat with a cardboard box upside down on top (hey, practical and it works) and then the main is chicken fajitas! We are being extravagant as we hope to refill our water at Eagle Plains\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dawned SUNNY and glorious \u2013 early brekkie of bagels, granola \u2013 and we were ready to head off super early\u2026\u2026and then a funny smell from the RV bathroom, and it wasn\u2019t one of us. Just as we had the water fiasco (no way we went through 170L in 2d) we have had a grey water &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2022\/08\/27\/day-8-yellow-poplars-soaring-eagles-a-grey-water-fiasco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 8: Yellow Poplars, Soaring Eagles &#038; A Grey Water Fiasco&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-2022-category","tag-blog-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}