{"id":3299,"date":"2024-03-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/day-10-didnt-know-i-needed-to-pack-scuba-gear\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:25:34","slug":"day-10-didnt-know-i-needed-to-pack-scuba-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/day-10-didnt-know-i-needed-to-pack-scuba-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10: Didn&#8217;t Know I Needed to Pack Scuba Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Starting Point: Tray Mountain Shelter (58.5)<\/div>\n<div>Ending Point: Deep Gap Shelter (65.8)<\/div>\n<div>Total Miles: 7.4 miles.<\/div>\n<div>Steps: 24,119<\/div>\n<div>Achievements: Kelly Knob, Washout!!!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The story of the day was the weather.&nbsp; The goal was to hike to the next shelter, each lunch, and decided if we&#8217;d hike farther.&nbsp; It started to pour about ten minutes into the hole and it refused to stop.&nbsp; It was cold.&nbsp; It was hard.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As we walked, I noted that every campsite we passed was flooded.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When we reached the shelter, it was dry.&nbsp; With the threat of evening rain, we decided this is good enough.<\/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\/AVvXsEjksq7mY5AqbBIQbNzuDZrcAERbMON3kQ63Wc4BZGdv-dM8uGO-p84h1Df25pi3GzCNkglegpZhQrfaRQ963K3YL8lIZjc5BwLrv74qVwYj3ht6ke7-L7flDfAB5V6-s9ua3Qlc8qDdFMlg5aYjP7fi3HmK4vI-Dhh1K737kYURDf4r0SoFtjhjS1kb1BU\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjksq7mY5AqbBIQbNzuDZrcAERbMON3kQ63Wc4BZGdv-dM8uGO-p84h1Df25pi3GzCNkglegpZhQrfaRQ963K3YL8lIZjc5BwLrv74qVwYj3ht6ke7-L7flDfAB5V6-s9ua3Qlc8qDdFMlg5aYjP7fi3HmK4vI-Dhh1K737kYURDf4r0SoFtjhjS1kb1BU\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I met Patchwork.&nbsp; He is a Buddhist monk and we shared a tea meditation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ll crowd the shelter and hide from the rain if it comes again.&nbsp; We have clear skies the next couple of days.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll need to pick up our game.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Point: Tray Mountain Shelter (58.5) Ending Point: Deep Gap Shelter (65.8) Total Miles: 7.4 miles. Steps: 24,119 Achievements: Kelly Knob, Washout!!! The story of the day was the weather.&nbsp; The goal was to hike to the next shelter, each lunch, and decided if we&#8217;d hike farther.&nbsp; It started to pour about ten minutes into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/day-10-didnt-know-i-needed-to-pack-scuba-gear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 10: Didn&#8217;t Know I Needed to Pack Scuba Gear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","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\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}