{"id":209,"date":"2009-05-18T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-05-18T07:13:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:13:40","slug":"trail-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/thoughts\/trail-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Days 811.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trail days was the sweetest! \u00a0It’s one of those crazy events that couldn’t possibly exist anywhere else, or at any other time, and definitely requires experience on the trail for it to make any sense. \u00a0So worth it; you know how I love those once in a lifetime can’t be found anywhere else experiences. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Tent city was huge! \u00a0So many tents! \u00a0The weather held out pretty well, but condensation built up pretty quick on the inside. \u00a0Saturday was the parade! \u00a0All the current and past hikers march down main street, some in crazy costumes, which all the locals shoot us with water guns. \u00a0But don’t worry, we came armed ourselves. \u00a0It was unique among parades I’ve been to in that there was no music! \u00a0I’m going to have to make a backpackers boom bag for next year.<\/p>\n

We ate so much fast food. \u00a0Gah! \u00a0Not so much free gear, but I was able to acquire a new headlamp free of charge and help Africa at the same time.<\/p>\n

But the best part was seeing everyone I hiked with early on. \u00a0Rolling Stone, Burning Man, Zen, Zoltan, Rachiopod, Mustard, and Andy were all there. \u00a0Lulu, Cricket, Tinman, and Stretch, too. \u00a0And the even better news is that they are just a few days behind me, so maybe I’ll get to do some of the Shenandoahs with them. \u00a0I just saw Hodge Podge and Hoosier today, and even saw Dutch while waiting for Peachy Keen to pick us up. \u00a0So yeah, I’m really glad I went – thanks for convincing me Peachy Keen!<\/p>\n

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Pictured below: \u00a0Rolling Stone, Hot Sauce, Yoni Bear, and Peachy Keen.<\/p>\n

\"Friends!\"<\/a>

Friends!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tent City<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trail days was the sweetest! \u00a0It’s one of those crazy events that couldn’t possibly exist anywhere else, or at any other time, and definitely requires experience on the trail for it to make any sense. \u00a0So worth it; you know how I love those once in a lifetime can’t be found anywhere else experiences. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}