{"id":681,"date":"2012-08-13T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:06:00","slug":"killington-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Killington Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/13\/12 &#8211; 1692 miles<br \/>\nLess than 500 miles to go. I passed the sign on a closed section of trail. Irene did a number on some of the VT sections, but they are still passable, so hikers are ignoring the detours and using the trail.  Usually, only the bridges are gone and some blowdowns are across the trail.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m camped tonight with a nice couple called the Troverts. They have a journal on trailjournals.com if you want to look. They hiked yesterday with Kleenex and today with me.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_682\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120813_153733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120813_153733-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gondola on Killington\" title=\"20120813_153733\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120813_153733-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20120813_153733-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gondola on Killington<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>This shelter is very near the top of Killington Mountain, a huge ski and mountain bike complex. Hikers get to ride the gondolas for free so I hiked a short side trail to the top and rode the gondola down and back up. At the bottom I bought a sandwich and ice cream bar. The views from Killington and the gondola were awesome. Tomorrow I may stay at a Mountain Meadows Lodge near Killington VT. I need a rest and shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/13\/12 &#8211; 1692 miles Less than 500 miles to go. I passed the sign on a closed section of trail. Irene did a number on some of the VT sections, but they are still passable, so hikers are ignoring the detours and using the trail. Usually, only the bridges are gone and some blowdowns are [&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-681","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\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}