{"id":20888,"date":"2024-05-15T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=20888"},"modified":"2024-05-14T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:24:48","slug":"wanderlust-bike-packing-the-great-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/wanderlust-bike-packing-the-great-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanderlust: Bike Packing the Great Divide\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0The Hailey Public Library will host Bike Packing the Great Divide, the final talk in the popular Wanderlust series, with adventurer Shannon Jackson. Shannon and her husband mountain biked the full length of the renowned\u00a0Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, which runs from Mexico to Canada.\u00a0The free talk will be held Thursday, May 16, at 5:30 p.m. at Town Center West, 7 West Croy Street, in Hailey, and live streamed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cShannon is well known in the Valley as an avid backpacker, skier and cyclist,\u201d commented Kristin Fletcher, the library\u2019s education and engagement manager. \u201cShe may have outdone herself\u00a0when she tackled\u00a0the\u00a02,700-mile route from the Mexican border to Banff, Canada, on mountain bikes with her husband to celebrate their 40th\u00a0wedding anniversary!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Fletcher continued, \u201cThis will be an evening of beautiful scenery and entertaining stories from the trail suitable for armchair travelers or active outdoor adventurers. The Wanderlust series has taken us on explorations ranging from Morocco to Craters of the Moon to fascinating spots in between. We look forward to bringing it back next winter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A retired registered dietitian and sports nutritionist,\u00a0Shannon Jackson is a longtime resident of the Wood River Valley and an active outdoorsperson. Her book,\u00a0Better and Happier Together: Stories of Epic Adventures During Our First Forty Years of Marriage, was published in\u00a02023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">For more information about this and other talks, call (208) 788-2036 or visit\u00a0www.haileypubliclibrary.org.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Hailey Public Library will host Bike Packing the Great Divide, the final talk in the popular Wanderlust series, with adventurer Shannon Jackson. Shannon and her husband mountain biked the full length of the renowned\u00a0Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, which runs from Mexico to Canada.\u00a0The free talk will be held Thursday, May 16, at 5:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,83,84,18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hailey","8":"category-idaho","9":"category-in-brief","10":"category-news","11":"category-recreation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20889,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions\/20889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}