{"id":3114,"date":"2024-03-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/day-12-hello-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:28:48","slug":"day-12-hello-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/day-12-hello-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12: Hello North Carolina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Starting Point: Plum Orchard Gap Shelter (73.9)<\/div>\n<div>Ending Point: Muskrat Creek Shelter (81.2)<\/div>\n<div>Total Miles: 7.3 miles.<\/div>\n<div>Steps: 22,623<\/div>\n<div>Achievements: <b>Georgia Completed!<\/b>&nbsp;As Knob, Sharp Top<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjXgy8fNKFg1GXavwbjETxVWwpv0R-CGmi559PZa4Z-aiiqQbZRe_IcQRBh6CLjtYBei17sPhK2pLm24e7jShrMlMaI_VhmiFfROgHhPacnZMV6UcC72EyZRA7DP3MDKi4ZrXMe8nFBB7hbkdx3vNRoNQkzuSA7NEfwLyNfeecBVWbUkFExQrZcqpQeeEI\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjXgy8fNKFg1GXavwbjETxVWwpv0R-CGmi559PZa4Z-aiiqQbZRe_IcQRBh6CLjtYBei17sPhK2pLm24e7jShrMlMaI_VhmiFfROgHhPacnZMV6UcC72EyZRA7DP3MDKi4ZrXMe8nFBB7hbkdx3vNRoNQkzuSA7NEfwLyNfeecBVWbUkFExQrZcqpQeeEI\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>I woke up feeling pretty good and was looking forward to the day.&nbsp; We had multiple climbs at the start and they slowly took their toll.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We reached the Georgia \/ North Carolina border&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj45E4wGdBb4zwPf8PaqgYH6HikTJoJMf_wWrKuT0cxsQ8rfr7pYDEME97h_N9Ti9lb8dtPTSaFL24ROcvj5KNT0fiSyIzL2fl-nZ9q-GQD02kwvVquRSqJnacnZ3cH0zJbH3EAH2_4cAeOmISnv15Xc3XV2a6oCTzwdHhcEJiz5tPBdkgOfksSdM5ZXbo\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj45E4wGdBb4zwPf8PaqgYH6HikTJoJMf_wWrKuT0cxsQ8rfr7pYDEME97h_N9Ti9lb8dtPTSaFL24ROcvj5KNT0fiSyIzL2fl-nZ9q-GQD02kwvVquRSqJnacnZ3cH0zJbH3EAH2_4cAeOmISnv15Xc3XV2a6oCTzwdHhcEJiz5tPBdkgOfksSdM5ZXbo\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Left to right: The Sweeper, Me (Fine Young Buck), Dunkeroo, Blaze.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div>Entering North Carolina, the climb up Sharp Top depleted all my energy.&nbsp; It was a rock scramble to the top.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We reached Muskrat and we all agreed this was far enough.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Blaze and I discussed our lack of milage.&nbsp; He&#8217;s been calculating the grade.&nbsp; Today, the average grade was 13%.&nbsp; Tomorrow&#8217;s grade is 8%.&nbsp; We&#8217;re aiming for 12 miles.&nbsp; It is going to be extremely cold.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Point: Plum Orchard Gap Shelter (73.9) Ending Point: Muskrat Creek Shelter (81.2) Total Miles: 7.3 miles. Steps: 22,623 Achievements: Georgia Completed!&nbsp;As Knob, Sharp Top I woke up feeling pretty good and was looking forward to the day.&nbsp; We had multiple climbs at the start and they slowly took their toll. We reached the Georgia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/day-12-hello-north-carolina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 12: Hello North Carolina!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}