{"id":1531,"date":"2019-02-10T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2019-02-10T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:36:26","slug":"goldmine-to-cs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/02\/10\/goldmine-to-cs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldmine to cs #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1532\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_165020941-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_165020941-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_165020941.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0It was a another in a string of quick hit backcountry trips and Friday afternoon saw me hitting the trail from top of the world down into Cane Creek.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1533\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195626255-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195626255-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195626255-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195626255.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0I went at the invitation of Curt and Brian who were doing two days out in their quest to join the 900 miler club.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1534\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195643525-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195643525-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195643525-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190208_195643525.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0That&#8217;s Brian.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature had dropped significantly from the day before and dipped into the lower 30s by bedtime.\u00a0 We enjoyed a relaxing and solo night at yet another campsite showing all\u00a0 but two spaces full.\u00a0 This is a familiar pattern for those of us who had suspicions the NPS was cooking the books on backcountry visitation after implementing the backcountry tax.\u00a0 In fact, Mark Cooke of the Southern Forest Watch exposed this chicanery in a well researched article that I am linking here for your enjoyment.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokymountainnews.com\/outdoors\/item\/17708-a-strained-relationship-suspicion-of-nps-lingers-among-some-backcountry-users-parkside-communities\">https:\/\/www.smokymountainnews.com\/outdoors\/item\/17708-a-strained-relationship-suspicion-of-nps-lingers-among-some-backcountry-users-parkside-communities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It was a another in a string of quick hit backcountry trips and Friday afternoon saw me hitting the trail from top of the world down into Cane Creek. \u00a0I went at the invitation of Curt and Brian who were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/02\/10\/goldmine-to-cs-2\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}