{"id":2609,"date":"2008-01-07T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T18:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2008-01-07T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T18:23:17","slug":"into-the-woods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2609","title":{"rendered":"Into the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08101.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nPT, the Tom and I trekked off for a wee hike this past Saturday. We did a very small section of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mountains-to-Sea_Trail\"><strong>Mountains to Sea Trail<\/strong><\/a> then cut across to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devil's_Courthouse\"><strong>Devil&#8217;s Courthouse<\/strong><\/a> and walked back down the Parkway to the Jeep. All-in-all it was a great hike. There wasn&#8217;t nearly as much snow as I thought there would be &#8230; but what can ya do? I took quite a few photo with my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0602\/06022111canons3is.asp\"><strong>snazzy new point and shoot Canon<\/strong><\/a>. Yeah. I bought another camera. I found that the Digital Rebel was just a wee too cumbersome to cart around on long distances through the woods. More photos are inside, of course. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08102.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nPT shot this as we took a rest break overlooking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina_Highway_215\"><strong>NC Hwy. 215<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08103.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the Devil&#8217;s Courthouse as seen from our lunch spot.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08104.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my Nalgene bottle filled with refreshing water! Mmmm.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08105.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nPT, Tom and myself just off the steep trail to the Devil&#8217;s Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08106.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a view from the top of the Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08108.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nSelf-Portrait.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08109.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nThree markers at the summit provide a map of the surrounding mountains. There are great views all around.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08110.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nMore mountain views from the peak.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08111.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nGroup shot.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08112.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nSeen here are Tom and PT walking down the Parkway which was closed.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" title=\"01\/05\/08 Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08113.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nShadows on the Hwy. 215 near the Parkway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PT, the Tom and I trekked off for a wee hike this past Saturday. We did a very small section of the Mountains to Sea Trail then cut across to Devil&#8217;s Courthouse and walked back down the Parkway to the Jeep. All-in-all it was a great hike. There wasn&#8217;t nearly as much snow as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-G5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}