{"id":3326,"date":"2021-08-06T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/06\/day-4-bonus-miles-are-bad\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:26:22","slug":"day-4-bonus-miles-are-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/06\/day-4-bonus-miles-are-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Bonus Miles Are Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Location ; Burlington Bay Camp Site, Two Harbors<\/b><\/p>\n

Distance: 18.8 miles + 5.0 road miles + 1.8 bonus<\/b><\/div>\n
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First, Cooper.  Cooper was only going tem miles today, so he was sleeping in. I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye. He will understand. This is hiking your own hike.<\/div>\n
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Now for these miles.  Let me to explain…  My resupply point, Two Harbors, has two entry points.  The first is at mile 52.1 with a six mile walk into town.  It is against the law to hitch.  The second is at 57.5 with a five mile road walk.  However, it was supposed to be easy to get a Lyft from the second stop and the additional miles were supposed to be very flat.  So, I was up at 4:30 a.m. with a stretch goal of 18.8 miles.  Unfortunately, the Lyft ride was but a false rumor and I walked the 5.0 miles in.<\/div>\n
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The road walk was all down hill and my pack had neither food or water, so it was fast.  The pizza place was right next to the post office, I set my pack down and made it to the post office with little time to spare.<\/div>\n
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Put simply, I really really over did it.  I have reserved an extra day here and I’m doing to heal my feet and rest.<\/div>\n
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I should mention that last night I discovered that this trail has an unusual pests.  Slugs.<\/div>\n
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My shoes were covered on them.  My tent was covered with them.  As I hiked I discovered that they hang from trees on slimy snot webs.  So gross.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here is a peaceful view of a remote river to clear your mind of that horror <\/div>\n
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Now to sleep for a day.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Location ; Burlington Bay Camp Site, Two Harbors Distance: 18.8 miles + 5.0 road miles + 1.8 bonus First, Cooper.  Cooper was only going tem miles today, so he was sleeping in. I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye. He will understand. This is hiking your own hike. Now for these miles.  Let me … Continue reading Day 4: Bonus Miles Are Bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","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\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}