{"id":1103,"date":"2018-10-08T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:33:50","slug":"mile-1286-va-october-3-near-hightop-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Mile 1286 (VA): October 3, Near Hightop Hut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three hours of early morning hiking I reached the edge of Lewis Campground, one of the smaller facilities in the park. However, it is very close to the trail and has coin shower and laundry available, plus a small camp store. When I arrived, three other hikers were already doing the same thing. I met fellow SOBOs Toots, Fire Sale, and a third guy whose name escapes me right now. We hung out doing laundry and taking turns in the shower. The three of them finished first and I followed a little while later.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The three hikers and I passed each other a few times during the day as we went. The three of them decided to camp near the peak of Hightop Mountain. There was a nice spring up there plus a great view. It promised to be a clear night so they would probably get a good view of the sunrise tomorrow.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I decided to continue another mile or so to the shelter down the other side of the mountain. I got there around 5:00 and enjoyed at least a couple hours in camp before it got dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three hours of early morning hiking I reached the edge of Lewis Campground, one of the smaller facilities in the park. However, it is very close to the trail and has coin shower and laundry available, plus a small camp store. When I arrived, three other hikers were already doing the same thing. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/?p=1103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mile 1286 (VA): October 3, Near Hightop Hut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appalachian-trail-sobo-2018-19","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iprobablywill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}