{"id":1167,"date":"2010-09-12T05:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T12:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2013-05-15T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:42:30","slug":"north-access-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/north-access-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"North Access Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Droidx capture of sunrise at East End of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100912-188x105.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Yesterday morning, Chris and I hiked what I call the North Access Loop (of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve). For those interested, we started at the North Access trail head and hiked up Tom&#8217;s Thumb Trail to the junction of East End Trail, turned left and headed down East End to the Windmill Trail junction; turned left on Windmill and continued to Coachwhip entering the Regional Park; stayed on Coachwhip to the Pemberton Trail; followed Pemberton around crossing back into the Preserve; took a spur over to the Marcus Landslide Trail and then back to the parking area. All in all, it&#8217;s just under 9 miles. Whew! So how long did it take? Just a few minutes over 4 hours. That&#8217;s slow for Chris but darned good for me considering the elevation gains. My Crossfit training is paying off \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>DroidX capture at start of descent on East End Trail. See how steep it is?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, Chris and I hiked what I call the North Access Loop (of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve). For those interested, we started at the North Access trail head and hiked up Tom&#8217;s Thumb Trail to the junction of East End Trail, turned left and headed down East End to the Windmill Trail junction; turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,217,283,58,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}