{"id":12349,"date":"2015-01-23T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2015-01-23T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:03:28","slug":"chris-townsend-pacific-crest-trail-talk-inverness-29-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/chris-townsend-pacific-crest-trail-talk-inverness-29-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Townsend Pacific Crest Trail talk Inverness 29 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary backpacker, writer and photographer Chris Townsend will be re-living the adventure of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail at an event in Inverness later this month.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1908737735\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1908737735&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=staffinbaycot-21&amp;linkId=3IOYKN3YSVGENENU&quot;&gt;Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles: Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=staffinbaycot-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=1908737735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rattleskin.jpg\" alt=\"rattleskin\" width=\"330\" height=\"490\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rattleskin.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rattleskin-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rattleskin-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChris completed the 2,600 mile long hike in the 1980s, walking through desert, forest and mountain wildernesses. Out of the many hikers who started that year, only eleven completed the trail. Come and hear firsthand about his experience, the trials and tribulations on this epic, six-month walk.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrated talk will be held at Eden Court in Inverness. It starts at 7pm and costs \u00a37 (\u00a36 concessions). There will be time for a Q&#038;A session afterwards and copies of Chris&#8217;s book based on the trek, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1908737735\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=1908737735&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=staffinbaycot-21&#038;linkId=3IOYKN3YSVGENENU\">Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles: Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=staffinbaycot-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=1908737735\">Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles<\/a>, will also be available. Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eden-court.co.uk\/whats-on\/shows\/chris-townsend-the-pacific-crest-trail\">tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary backpacker, writer and photographer Chris Townsend will be re-living the adventure of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail at an event in Inverness later this month. Chris completed the 2,600 mile long hike in the 1980s, walking through desert, forest and mountain wildernesses. Out of the many hikers who started that year, only eleven completed the trail. Come and hear firsthand about his experience, the trials and tribulations on this epic, six-month walk. This illustrated talk will be held at Eden Court in Inverness. It starts at 7pm and costs \u00a37 (\u00a36 concessions). There will be time for a Q&#038;A<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/chris-townsend-pacific-crest-trail-talk-inverness-29-january\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}