{"id":8216,"date":"2026-05-30T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=8216"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:47:23","slug":"mountain-biking-with-an-emphasis-on-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=8216","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Biking, with an emphasis on Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a 23 year hiatus, I am officially a mountain biker again. Not a very good one, but a mountain biker nonetheless. With Silas and Ivan on the school mountain biking team, and Paul now the head coach (how did that happen?!), there was no way I was going to be left out of the family fun a moment longer. I\u2019m all in people! Well, \u201call-in\u201d as in letting mountain biking be a nice filler sport for bouldering. Except for when one is riding REAL mountain biking trails on a REAL mountain and having to squeeze the brakes a lot!!!  Oh my poor forearms! \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1792.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1792-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1792-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1792-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1792-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1792.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><center><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hitting up trails around Jackson Hole<\/figcaption><\/center><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure 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https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1798.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1815.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1815-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1815-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1815-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1815-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1815.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure 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Not a very good one, but a mountain biker nonetheless. With Silas and Ivan on the school mountain biking team, and Paul now the head coach (how did that happen?!), there was no way I was going to be left out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}