{"id":18375,"date":"2017-03-02T01:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=18375"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:17:43","slug":"pokeys-slow-walk-uphill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=18375","title":{"rendered":"Pokey&#8217;s Uphill Walk at Westerway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we discovered on the Tasmanian Trail, horses can climb some outrageously steep country.\u00a0 Pokey and Gayle wanted to show off how well they handled the steep climbs together.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-18375-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pokey-Walk-Push-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pokey-Walk-Push-2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pokey-Walk-Push-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Ah &#8211; the beauty of time-lapse photography.\u00a0 The walk actually took them about 3.5\u00a0 minutes and a fair bit of huff and puff from Gayle and Pokey.\u00a0 (I think that was a smile from Gayle but it may have just been a grimace).\u00a0\u00a0 This was not the steepest or longest climb that we encountered during our journey, but reasonably representative of what we encountered when we ventured away from the formed roads.\u00a0 I did feel a little bit guilty making Gayle push her bike all the way up by herself so that I could capture the moment with the camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P2094139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P2094139-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P2094139-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P2094139-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P2094139-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am pleased that we took the time to follow this bit of off-road madness near Westerway. \u00a0 The effort of pushing our bikes both up and down the hills leading to the upper plateau was eventually rewarded with some relatively easy riding and the most spectacular views\u00a0 of our whole journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Day-7-Image22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Day-7-Image22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Day-7-Image22.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Day-7-Image22-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we discovered on the Tasmanian Trail, horses can climb some outrageously steep country.\u00a0 Pokey and Gayle wanted to show off how well they handled the steep climbs together. Ah &#8211; the beauty of time-lapse photography.\u00a0 The walk actually took them about 3.5\u00a0 minutes and a fair bit of huff and puff from Gayle and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=18375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pokey&#8217;s Uphill Walk at Westerway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18378,"parent":17697,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18407,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18375\/revisions\/18407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}