{"id":3307,"date":"2024-03-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/day-23-the-smokies\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:25:49","slug":"day-23-the-smokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/day-23-the-smokies\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 23: The Smokies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Starting Point: Fontana Dam (164.6)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Ending Point: Mollies Ridge Shelter (178.0)<\/div>\n<div>Total miles: 13.4 miles<\/div>\n<div>Steps: 35,972<\/div>\n<div>Achievements: Shuckstack, Doe Knob<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjyC5yICm1oqZ2x_Q4DxToUkzmTEgcXIv0GjToNKKXyk9PRDE8dT81ctCCI4Q_BYLmGYwaRSlR0EcWPrZRnEOkeLYztMRjGy2Fm02-jxBkNXfpMzZz01Lq1UB_5s8G70RPpDugdLxc7KDiUTZYkhH_THQAVAyhxaSBZsvg8sT7c3bXLRgJHHrojjUxhO3A\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjyC5yICm1oqZ2x_Q4DxToUkzmTEgcXIv0GjToNKKXyk9PRDE8dT81ctCCI4Q_BYLmGYwaRSlR0EcWPrZRnEOkeLYztMRjGy2Fm02-jxBkNXfpMzZz01Lq1UB_5s8G70RPpDugdLxc7KDiUTZYkhH_THQAVAyhxaSBZsvg8sT7c3bXLRgJHHrojjUxhO3A\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjVfaIEZyyoiQ85cfsXUYLShCQDdj3i_8i2d3HF7XslihO8OY8uNS2cDZc7zY9SZalmArRw3s5ewNCwKHNpiDoZXrR-Tm0Pr6jEUQKVLLcg7TazO8tnnhiRlNa603Di9tHKgQFdpQ3TVUPZMPSnrrGezCkJh5y5bouiZ7js4FZPUUssEP3N9vwDbC1C0nQ\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjVfaIEZyyoiQ85cfsXUYLShCQDdj3i_8i2d3HF7XslihO8OY8uNS2cDZc7zY9SZalmArRw3s5ewNCwKHNpiDoZXrR-Tm0Pr6jEUQKVLLcg7TazO8tnnhiRlNa603Di9tHKgQFdpQ3TVUPZMPSnrrGezCkJh5y5bouiZ7js4FZPUUssEP3N9vwDbC1C0nQ\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>After that, the climb began.&nbsp; I could not get going.&nbsp; I stopped multiple times to take in carbs.&nbsp; I could not get my legs moving.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I reached the goal and the Dunkeroo was there, but the Sweeper had moved on towards the stretch goal.&nbsp; I finally had my hiking legs in the late afternoon.&nbsp; I reached camp at 5 p.m.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That was a big milage jump.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see how I feel tomorrow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Point: Fontana Dam (164.6)&nbsp; Ending Point: Mollies Ridge Shelter (178.0) Total miles: 13.4 miles Steps: 35,972 Achievements: Shuckstack, Doe Knob After that, the climb began.&nbsp; I could not get going.&nbsp; I stopped multiple times to take in carbs.&nbsp; I could not get my legs moving. I reached the goal and the Dunkeroo was there, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/day-23-the-smokies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 23: The Smokies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","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\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}