{"id":525,"date":"2019-10-06T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.40\/LostInPlace\/?p=525"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:19:56","slug":"day-177-10-6-19-wolf-creek-pass-and-hitch-to-pagosa-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/day-177-10-6-19-wolf-creek-pass-and-hitch-to-pagosa-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 177 Wolf Creek Pass \/ Pagosa Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I said goodbye to Tyler and Michael and continued on towards Wolf Creek Pass.\u00a0 The terrain and trail were interesting and beautiful, but I am so tired.\u00a0 I run out of gas and all I wanted to do was stop and rest.\u00a0 And then I would get bored and feel guilty for wasting time so I put my pack back on and the cycle repeats.  And today is a town day!  I really want to get this morning done so I can get some rest and real food.  You would think I could just buck up and get it over with but I&#8217;m on empty and mentally done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After much willpower I finally made it and descended to Wolf Creek Pass.&nbsp; I tried to hitch for maybe 10 minutes when I heard someone yell.&nbsp; I looked across the highway and a guy next to the Wolf Creek Pass sign was gesturing for me to come over.&nbsp; I grabbed my pack and ran across the highway to the pullout and he said he would give me a ride.&nbsp; We loaded up and he dropped me off near the start of Pagosa Springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, my hotel was on the west side of town, and Pagosa Springs is really spread out with a big undeveloped section in the middle.&nbsp; I saw a pizza restaurant across the street (Mountain Pizza and Taproom) so I went over there and had lunch.&nbsp; The lady working there suggested calling Pagosa Cab for a ride, so I did that.&nbsp; Within about 15 minutes the friendly cab lady showed up and gave me a ride to my hotel (several miles away).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right next to the Pagosa Inn were several restaurants &#8211; Colorado Roadhouse, Ramon&#8217;s Mexican, McDonalds, and Thai Pagosa.\u00a0 I ate at all of them over the next two days.\u00a0 The hotel was nice but this end of town is fairly remote and quiet.\u00a0 I saw no other hikers, no hiker boxes, and I miss the company of other hikers.\u00a0 But it was really nice to rest up here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said goodbye to Tyler and Michael and continued on towards Wolf Creek Pass.\u00a0 The terrain and trail were interesting and beautiful, but I am so tired.\u00a0 I run out of gas and all I<a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/day-177-10-6-19-wolf-creek-pass-and-hitch-to-pagosa-springs\/\">&hellip;Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creede-to-wolf-creek-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}