{"id":2732,"date":"2008-05-12T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2008-05-12T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:35:11","slug":"a-saturday-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08220.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nPT and I went for a little walk on Saturday in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hikewnc.info\/trailheads\/pisgah\/pisgah\/black.html\"><strong>Black Balsam Wilderness<\/strong><\/a>. We crossed Black Balsam Knob (see above) and made our way to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.summitpost.org\/mountain\/rock\/154369\/tennent-mountain.html\"><strong>Tennent Mountain<\/strong><\/a> where we stopped for lunch. We hung out, chatted and watched some hawks. On the way back we took part of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hikewnc.info\/trailheads\/pisgah\/longdistance\/artloeb.html\"><strong>Art Loeb Trail<\/strong><\/a> where I tried my best to step on a snake. Turned out it was just a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garter_snake\"><strong>garter snake<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; so it wasn&#8217;t anything to get too uppity about. I would have gotten a picture but he slithered away pretty quickly. The main thing that I did catch on the hike was a sunburn. So, I am gonna be a nice lobster pink when I travel to NYC later this week.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08221.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nView of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.main.nc.us\/naturenotebook\/hikes\/lookingglass.html\"><strong>Looking Glass Rock<\/strong><\/a> from Tennant Mountain.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08222.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nPT having his lunch. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgeheritage.com\/NaturalHeritage\/NaturalTreasures\/Mountains\/GraveyardFields.html\"><strong>Graveyard Fields<\/strong><\/a> is below us.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08223.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nGratuitous Self-Portrait.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08224.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nView of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shining_Rock\"><strong>Shining Rocks<\/strong><\/a> and the summit of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blueridgegazette.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/take-hike-on-cold-mountain.html\"><strong>Cold Mountain<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08225.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nMountain and Valley View.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08226.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nTennent Mountain Marker.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08227.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nHawk!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08228.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nMore Mountains &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" alt=\"Tennent Mountain Hike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08229.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nThe Lazy Hikers (PT and Myself).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PT and I went for a little walk on Saturday in the Black Balsam Wilderness. We crossed Black Balsam Knob (see above) and made our way to Tennent Mountain where we stopped for lunch. We hung out, chatted and watched some hawks. On the way back we took part of the Art Loeb Trail where [&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-2732","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-I4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}