{"id":796,"date":"2020-07-29T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/?p=796"},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:18:48","slug":"daily-log-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/2020\/07\/29\/daily-log-day-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Log: Day 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meetup: <\/strong>Day 17 – Wednesday 7\/29\/2020 – 1537.4<\/a> – clear, sunny, cool, windy. I stayed in my sleeping bag until 4:45 am and got on trail about 5:45 am. Overall it was an uneventful day. There were some climbs, but nothing major. It was cool and windy so I kept my down vest on and wore wool gloves too. It was so uneventful that I listened to audio book to help pass the time. My shoes and socks dried out. Near the end as I was approaching Justin several day hikers said \u201cYou must be Tartan\u201d your son told us about you. This happened in the last three miles. One was a lady NOBO section hiker named Knock-out. I began to mention how tough yesterday was and how much I needed to see my son. As I spoke I got choked up, excused myself and quickly continued on my way. I don’t often get emotional but after the stress of yesterday I did. After a short climb I got to Justin. I was so relieved. The social and emotional connection is so important. I dropped my pack, my poles and hugged him. It felt so good. I had made it! Later this day Glider, a hiker, stopped by for a Coke and stayed over an hour telling us about his hiking, falling down on trail, ex-wife, life,… Each hiker has a story to tell, but his was a bit too much information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doing my chores after arriving at our meetup – resupplying my food for the next section from the plastic bins in the Jeep. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Setting up my tent is another daily chore. Here it is right next to the trail so I placed branches\/logs to protect my guy lines. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just across the dirt road from my tent the Jeep was parked with its root-top pop-up tent. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meetup: Day 17 – Wednesday 7\/29\/2020 – 1537.4 – clear, sunny, cool, windy. I stayed in my sleeping bag until 4:45 am and got on trail about 5:45 am. Overall it was an uneventful day. There were some climbs, but nothing major. It was cool and windy so I kept my down vest on and … Continue reading “Daily Log: Day 17”<\/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-796","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\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}