{"id":653,"date":"2020-07-20T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/?p=653"},"modified":"2020-10-13T21:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T02:39:59","slug":"daily-log-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/2020\/07\/20\/daily-log-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Log: Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meetup: <\/strong>Day 8 – Monday 7\/20\/2020 – 1381.5<\/a> – clear, sunny, hot, dry. I woke after a fitful sleep with gusting winds at 4:40 am, packed up and was on trail at 5:20 am. It was an easy 7 miles to Justin. I arrived at 8:10 am. I drank a Coke. We chatted and decided after a few minutes that I would slack-pack through Rawlins WY and get more miles in. I left at 9:45 am. I took Justin\u2019s daypack, 2L of water, some snacks, and my InReach. This was my first slack-packing ever. I never did any on the AT although many other hikers did. I zoomed along and did 7 more miles until SOBO mile 1381.5 at 12 noon where I again met up with Justin. We had hot sausage wraps for lunch and pizza for dinner. Yum! I did my standard resupply stuff out of the Jeep. In addition I also took a shower and washed my clothes. Tomorrow I will be attempting to do 22 miles. We shall see. It will be 14 miles to water, 4 more to meet Justin where I’ll again switch from my backpack to a slack-pack and then 4 more to our official meetup point. Overall it’s been a good day, but I\u2019m tired because I didn\u2019t sleep well with yesterday’s wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tartan’s view: Somewhere out there is Justin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Justin’s view: I see a spec moving. Could that be Tartan? (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Justin’s view: It is. It is. I see Tartan! (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With a wave goodby he’s off on his first slack-pack to and through Rawlins WY. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Doing laundry after slack-packing through Rawlins WY. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Because we’re near town Justin ordered and drove to a local pizzeria so we could have pizza for dinner. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I can’t get lost or not find the trail when we are parked right on it! Say aloud: “ON TRAIL – SOUTHBOUND”. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meetup: Day 8 – Monday 7\/20\/2020 – 1381.5 – clear, sunny, hot, dry. I woke after a fitful sleep with gusting winds at 4:40 am, packed up and was on trail at 5:20 am. It was an easy 7 miles to Justin. I arrived at 8:10 am. I drank a Coke. We chatted and decided … Continue reading “Daily Log: Day 8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-log","category-hike","category-meetup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}