{"id":4024,"date":"2024-06-04T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2024-06-04T17:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:11:19","slug":"30-miles-on-the-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2024\/06\/04\/30-miles-on-the-at\/","title":{"rendered":"30 miles on the AT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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the weekend hit to finish the miles we had remaining to the James River bridge. As you will notice we finished here almost a month ago but pulled out a little early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first day we drove 4 and 1\/2 hours up to Virginia and climbed 3,700 ft in 9 MI. When I say the weather was perfect I cannot emphasize enough how this temperature was right for the climbing. It may have been 60\u00b0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the second day found us doing almost 12 miles. We followed the Blue ridge parkway for most of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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we were just ahead of the bubble thank goodness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The temperature dropped down into the 40s our first night and I’m glad I had my warmer bag. Martin and Frank did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the infamous guillotine <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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we were wary of bears in this spot. We hiked 12 miles and it was time to rest in the only place that had water. It was near here that this happened. https:\/\/thetrek.co\/appalachian-trail\/i-survived-a-bear-attack-on-the-appalachian-trail\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A big fire came through here a year ago and it was obvious the damage that occurred. Matts Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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an incredible 3-day weekend with 30 mi and lots of elevation. Great company and weather. Look at the size of this monster black snake I encountered. I would also like to make mention of the brand new helinox chair I got for my birthday from AJ. The week before we spent two nights out watching the lightning bugs in the smokies and it was glorious although we had some rain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the weekend hit to finish the miles we had remaining to the James River bridge. As you will notice we finished here almost a month ago but pulled out a little early. The first day we drove 4 and 1\/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\/4024"}],"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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}