{"id":586,"date":"2012-06-26T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T13:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:06:57","slug":"harpers-ferry-wv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Harpers Ferry, WV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6\/25\/12 &#8211; 1017 miles<br \/>\nOne thousand miles.  Two and a half million steps. Its amazing what the human body can do. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120625_092649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120625_092649-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"20120625_092649\" title=\"20120625_092649\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120625_092649-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120625_092649.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was up first at the hostel and made myself coffee and pancakes. It was 21 miles into Harpers Ferry but I knew I could make it easily. I was almost past the roller coaster and the next section of trail was mostly flat. The hiking went well and I only stopped for lunch, a blueberry bush, and a picture of the 1000 mile marker. It was about 4:00 pm when descended Loudoun Heights, crossed over the Shenandoah River and entered Harpers Ferry, WV.<\/p>\n<p>Harpers Ferry is home to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, headquarters for the trail, and the psychological half-way point for hikers. At the ATC you sign a register, get your picture taken, and are assigned a number in the list of thruhikers. I am number 669.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I am staying at the Econo Lodge and will head out tomorrow. I met Blue Sky after I checked in &#8211; he is at the same motel &#8211; and we walked downtown for dinner and ice cream. I enjoy a relaxing rest at a motel every once in a while but the motels keep getting more expense as I travel further north. I may have to lengthen my motel intervals. Nah! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\/25\/12 &#8211; 1017 miles One thousand miles. Two and a half million steps. Its amazing what the human body can do. I was up first at the hostel and made myself coffee and pancakes. It was 21 miles into Harpers Ferry but I knew I could make it easily. I was almost past the roller [&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-586","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\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}