{"id":3070,"date":"2017-06-10T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T21:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?page_id=3070"},"modified":"2017-06-10T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T21:48:12","slug":"foothills-trail-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?page_id=3070","title":{"rendered":"Foothills Trail (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>During March 2017, Carolyn solo hiked the Foothills Trail through a portion of\u00a0South\/North Carolina. The trail is 76 miles through beautiful forests and mountains, and hosts notable and scenic rivers and waterfalls. The route took Carolyn 4.5 days and was her first multi-day backpacking trip by herself. It was a really spectacular first solo\u00a0trip and she recommends hiking it for beginners and advanced hikers alike.\n<p>Journal Entries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=2435\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Day 0<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=2441\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Day 1<\/span><\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=2452\"> <span style=\"color: red;\">Day 2<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=2462\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Day 3<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=2471\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Day 4<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=2480\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Day 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<p>Everything you would need to know to plan a hike on the Foothills trail can be found\u00a0on the official Foothills Trail\u00a0website (<span style=\"color: red;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foothillstrail.org\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Foothillstrail.org<\/span>)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carolyn put together an itinerary spreadsheet which you may find helpful in planning your hike (Click here to download the Excel spreadsheet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Foothills-Trail-Itinerary_03.xlsx\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Foothills Trail Itinerary<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2459\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2459\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?attachment_id=2459\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?fit=4032%2C2268&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4032,2268\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G930V&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1489766172&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0034602076124567&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20170317_155612\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Whitewater River&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2459\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612-1024x576.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.intothewideopen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170317_155612.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitewater River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During March 2017, Carolyn solo hiked the Foothills Trail through a portion of\u00a0South\/North Carolina. The trail is 76 miles through beautiful forests and mountains, and hosts notable and scenic rivers and waterfalls. The route took Carolyn 4.5 days and was her first multi-day backpacking trip by herself. It was a really spectacular first solo\u00a0trip and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3070","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3070\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}