{"id":1755,"date":"2019-09-08T22:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T22:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2019-09-08T22:41:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T22:41:42","slug":"hatcher-mtn-and-rabbit-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/09\/08\/hatcher-mtn-and-rabbit-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatcher Mountain and Rabbit Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1756 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_122031743-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_122031743-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_122031743-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_122031743-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_122031743-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_122031743.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see the weather was perfect. we embarked immediately after work on Friday afternoon and made the great climb up pine mountain down into the rabbit Creek campsite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1757\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_112507355-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_112507355-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_112507355-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_112507355.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick joined us. We needed a fire bug.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1758 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG951355.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG951355.jpg 640w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG951355-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had the run of the campsite and rabbit Creek is a beautiful peaceful spot. A couple of things were learned. Those expensive Nemo tents that you read about are no good. We spend some time trying to set one of those things up. And it was returned to REI the next day by Howard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1759 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_120622784-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_120622784-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_120622784-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_120622784-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_120622784-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_120622784.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next morning we decided to do an alternate loop down one of my favorite trails, Hatcher mountain, into the Abrams Creek drainage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1760 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG951361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG951361.jpg 640w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG951361-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by the time we&#8217;d gotten two miles down to the Abram Creek crossing I was ready for a bath. Myers would have joined us had he been there.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1761 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_123759232-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_123759232-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_123759232-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_123759232-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_123759232-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190907_123759232.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>So Nick had to pull his slack.<\/li>\n<li>Great outing<\/li>\n<li>Great chemistry.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s going to be a traditional fall with lots of these coming like the old days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see the weather was perfect. we embarked immediately after work on Friday afternoon and made the great climb up pine mountain down into the rabbit Creek campsite. Nick joined us. We needed a fire bug. We had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/09\/08\/hatcher-mtn-and-rabbit-creek\/\">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\/1755"}],"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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}