{"id":212,"date":"2018-04-16T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:23:03","slug":"fontana-4-15-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/fontana-4-15-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Fontana, NC 4\/15\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

After taking a couple zero days last week and letting our bodies rest and heal, we started hiking again on Monday. We went back into town to the outfitters and I got another pair of shoes with more support than the ones I had hoping that would help my feet do better too. They did a lot better with the rough terrain and gave my ankles more support. We took it easy the next few days with doing mostly 8 mile days and towards the end of the week a few 10 mile days. They seem to be all healed up now and we are slowly doing more miles.<\/p>\n

Playing card games in our tent on one of our zero days where it was raining.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We even made some chili cheese dogs on one of our zero days…soooo yummy!<\/em><\/p>\n

Thursday we stopped at the Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC) to resupply again. We got to town close to lunch so we got some big burgers, fries, and a lettuce salad. I think it was the first salad I had on the trail so it was soooo good to have one again! We bought all our food for the next few days and each got little pints of ice cream to eat! It was a really warm sunny day so we could sit out in the sunshine to enjoy them. While we were in town we also got to meet Miss Janet. She is a trail legend around here that goes around doing trail magic for hikers so it was awesome to actually meet her.<\/p>\n

Icecream and sunshine….<\/em><\/p>\n

Miss Janet and her van! <\/em><\/p>\n

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One of the many beautiful views we had after climbing to the top of a mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday on Saturday we planned to hike around 10 miles again. We got to the shelter early in the afternoon and were still feeling good so we decided to just hike and see how far we go. We were kind of hoping to make it to the Fontana Dam Shelter so we could take a zero the next day and also beat the rain that was supposed to come Sunday. We felt pretty good till about the last few miles…our feet really started to hurt but we were so close and knew we would take a day or two of rest so we pushed on and made it to the shelter! We ended up hiking 16.5 miles till we got here. We probably overdid it just a bit but it’s so nice being here this morning with the rain coming down and not have to get up and hike in it! Unlike any of the other shelters on the trail, the one here does have bathrooms and showers so that was a bit of a motivator and we are taking full advantage of that.<\/p>\n

This is what love looks like out here. My kind generous husband carrying my pack when the last few miles were so hard. <\/em><\/p>\n

We got to enjoy a lot of sunshine the last few days which has been amazing to hike in and also nice at nighttime its not so cold. Yesterday was probably our last sunny day we will have for awhile. Today it’s been raining alllll day long and then Monday or Tuesday we hit the Smokey Mountains for the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After taking a couple zero days last week and letting our bodies rest and heal, we started hiking again on Monday. We went back into town to the outfitters and I got another pair of shoes with more support than the ones I had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9EjCg-3q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindoverblazes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}