{"id":429,"date":"2012-04-12T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:09:15","slug":"ganc-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"GA\/NC Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the shuttle from Hiawassee back to the trail at 9 this morning.  The motel I stayed in last night was a little rundown, but it was clean and cheap.  Some of the young hikers that stayed there partied for awhile and finally went to bed about ten.  Hiawassee is a good place to get off the trail. Groceries and restaurants are all within walking distance and the people that live there are hiker friendly.  They know that we drop a lot of money while we are here.<\/p>\n<p>The hiking today was hard but perhaps not as bad as the last few days.  I seem to be getting into a rhythm and develop a pace that gets me over the mountains.  The bad thing about coming out of town is that you are loaded down with food from your resupply, and it&#8217;s always uphill. <\/p>\n<p>I keep running into the same people each day.  There is a group of hikers, all with about my same pace, I run into at the camps. We made it to the North Carolina state line at 77 miles -a real feeling of accomplishment &#8211; and are camped just beyond at Blythe Gap.  Tonight will be very cold, forecast is for below freezing temps and wind.  I had better get bundled in.<a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120411_144809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120411_144809-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"20120411_144809\" title=\"20120411_144809\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120411_144809-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120411_144809.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the shuttle from Hiawassee back to the trail at 9 this morning. The motel I stayed in last night was a little rundown, but it was clean and cheap. Some of the young hikers that stayed there partied for awhile and finally went to bed about ten. Hiawassee is a good place to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}