{"id":3408,"date":"2024-04-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/day-36-warning-high-winds\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:27:31","slug":"day-36-warning-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/day-36-warning-high-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 36: Warning High Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Starting Point: Spring Mountain Shelter (286.2)<\/div>\n<div>Ending Point: Little Laurel Shelter (294.8)<\/div>\n<div>Total miles: 8.6<\/div>\n<div>Steps: 23,398<\/div>\n<div>Injuries: None<\/div>\n<div>Achievements:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No pictures today.&nbsp; Nothing went according to plan.&nbsp; Woke up.&nbsp; Put my wet clothes on.&nbsp; Hiked in the rain.&nbsp; It was like hiking on oatmeal.&nbsp; Couldn&#8217;t get any speed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Captain Blogger told us that her phone gave her a High Wind Warning.&nbsp; I took my phone off airplane mode.&nbsp; Sure enough.&nbsp; I received the same warning.&nbsp; Gusts up to 70 mph.&nbsp; My tent was not designed for that.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also received a text from Dunkeroo.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t meet up with us last night.&nbsp; He decided to stay back in Hot Springs to avoid the weather.&nbsp; The hostel we stayed at had $3 PBR as well.&nbsp; Can&#8217;t blame him for that.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll miss his sense of humor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I did get a trail magic cookie, so I had that going for me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Change of plans.&nbsp; Instead of an 11 mile day, we&#8217;ll hike to the next shelter and hide from the storm.&nbsp; It is going to get worse tonight.&nbsp; The wind is likely to be blowing right into the shelter.&nbsp; I have my tent with me to use as a bivy.&nbsp; Good times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wait.&nbsp; Tomorrow is going to be worse weather wise.&nbsp; Great.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Point: Spring Mountain Shelter (286.2) Ending Point: Little Laurel Shelter (294.8) Total miles: 8.6 Steps: 23,398 Injuries: None Achievements: No pictures today.&nbsp; Nothing went according to plan.&nbsp; Woke up.&nbsp; Put my wet clothes on.&nbsp; Hiked in the rain.&nbsp; It was like hiking on oatmeal.&nbsp; Couldn&#8217;t get any speed. Captain Blogger told us that her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/day-36-warning-high-winds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 36: Warning High Winds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","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=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}