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Location: Faultline Ridge Camp (88.3 miles)<\/b><\/div>\n

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Distance: 10.2 Miles<\/b><\/div>\n

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For different sections in the guidebook it says something like “Some hikers may find this challenging.”. Castle Danger was one area, but I crushed it.  The combination of Breadloaf Ridge, Split Rock, Christmas Tree Ridge and Faultline Ridge kicked my butt.  The goal was 15 miles.  I reached the Faultline Ridge Camp at 3:45. Looking at the map, I had one more massive climb to go.<\/div>\n
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The funny thing is that I probably have enough in the tank to do it, but I checked the guidebook.  The next couple of days it listed as the most challenging on the entire trail.  I decided to keep my reserves if things are going to be more challenging in the next couple of days.<\/div>\n
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Injury wise, I have a blister on the left side of my left foot.  It is annoying, but taped.<\/div>\n
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Although my performance sucked, some of that had to do with the views.  I spent an hour in Split Rock taking pictures.  The views were much better <\/div>\n
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My penalty for walking too slow is that I have to drink from here:<\/div>\n
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Location: Faultline Ridge Camp (88.3 miles) Distance: 10.2 Miles For different sections in the guidebook it says something like “Some hikers may find this challenging.”. Castle Danger was one area, but I crushed it.  The combination of Breadloaf Ridge, Split Rock, Christmas Tree Ridge and Faultline Ridge kicked my butt.  The goal was 15 miles.  … Continue reading Day 7: Increased Difficulty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sht2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}