{"id":612,"date":"2017-06-28T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=612"},"modified":"2017-06-28T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:08:43","slug":"leconte-marathon-and-monster-black-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2017\/06\/28\/leconte-marathon-and-monster-black-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Leconte Marathon and Monster Black Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-613\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161404302_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20170627_161404302_HDR\" width=\"4160\" height=\"2340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161404302_HDR.jpg 4160w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161404302_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161404302_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161404302_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4160px) 100vw, 4160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We decided to do a marathon up on a perfect day so 19 miles was our final tally. \u00a0You may be asking, &#8220;how 19 roundtrip to Leconte?&#8221; \u00a0Well, if you do the &#8220;True Trillium&#8221; trail starting from Rainbow Falls, it is 19 miles. \u00a0And that was our day. \u00a0It was anomolous in that the weather was somewhat chilly even in the valley. \u00a0True Trillium parallels roaring fork and Cherokee orchard roads. \u00a0It was coming back when we encountered one of the largest bears I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-614\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_150932942_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20170627_150932942_HDR\" width=\"4160\" height=\"2340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_150932942_HDR.jpg 4160w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_150932942_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_150932942_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_150932942_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4160px) 100vw, 4160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I couldn&#8217;t just do a dayhike. \u00a0I had to make it more by adding a 25 lb pack filled with water, snacks etc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-615\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161922305_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20170627_161922305_HDR\" width=\"4160\" height=\"2340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161922305_HDR.jpg 4160w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161922305_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161922305_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170627_161922305_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4160px) 100vw, 4160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dunn had never been to cliff tops so we topped out to a view that afforded a real insight to the Smokies wildfire of last fall. \u00a0The Chimneys were\u00a0definitely altered\u00a0to great significance. \u00a0As you can see with the strava profile below, we made good time in our near 20 mile day. \u00a0If you are not using strava, I suggest you put in in your tool bag. \u00a0I employ this free app primarily for mountain biking but it is becoming quite handy for backpacking as I have been able to map data from Frozen Head and now Leconte. \u00a0Cell service in the mountains is improving, which is bad, but good for use of strava to log your data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-616\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/strava-leconte.jpg\" alt=\"strava leconte\" width=\"1248\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/strava-leconte.jpg 1248w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/strava-leconte-300x107.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/strava-leconte-768x275.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/strava-leconte-1024x367.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1248px) 100vw, 1248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Late yesterday afternoon, we were hitting the Bataan Death march portion of the dayhike and suffering through the final three miles back to Rainbow. \u00a0I spied something ahead and this was what we encountered. \u00a0He was an ever loving monster black bear. Kudos to Laurel for capturing this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-OVjW1p9q4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to do a marathon up on a perfect day so 19 miles was our final tally. \u00a0You may be asking, &#8220;how 19 roundtrip to Leconte?&#8221; \u00a0Well, if you do the &#8220;True Trillium&#8221; trail starting from Rainbow Falls, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2017\/06\/28\/leconte-marathon-and-monster-black-bear\/\">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\/612"}],"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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}