{"id":4813,"date":"2015-05-31T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2015-05-31T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T12:47:46","slug":"cheese-factory-site-to-unicoi-gap-3-6-miles-may-14-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/2015\/05\/31\/cheese-factory-site-to-unicoi-gap-3-6-miles-may-14-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheese Factory site to Unicoi  Gap (3.6 Miles, May 14, 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was hands down the best weather day we had in Georgia so far!<\/p>\n<p>We met Google at Unicoi Gap and then took her jeep to the Cheese Factory site.  It was a long ride on yet another forest service road.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was nice and cool when we started hiking.  We had a gentle one mile climb up to Rocky Mountain.  <\/p>\n<p>We saw a dead rattle snake by the side of the trail. We know that they have snake avoidance classes for dogs on the west coast but now we want to find one in our area.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4846\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dead.jpg 371w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dead-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe saw a lot of people on the trail today.  We even ran into 2 very nice gentlemen we met at the ATC Biennial in 2013.  One of the gentlemen hiked a 26 mile section in the Great Smoky Mountain National park so that he would not have to backpack that section!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5696.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5696.jpg\" alt=\"Cullowhee\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4839\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5696.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5696-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5683.jpg\" alt=\"Google\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4842\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5683.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5683-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5689.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5689.jpg\" alt=\"Google\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4843\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5689.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5689-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4838\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5708.jpg\" alt=\"Michaux and Cullowhee at Unicoi Gap\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4838\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5708.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5708-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaux and Cullowhee at Unicoi Gap<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4837\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5705.jpg\" alt=\"Group shot at Unicoi Gap\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4837\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5705.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5705-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group shot at Unicoi Gap<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4836\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5711.jpg\" alt=\"GATC Trail Maintainers at Unicoi Gap\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5711.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5711-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GATC Trail Maintainers at Unicoi Gap<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the hike, we played tourists and visited Brasstown Bald which is the highest natural point in the state of Georgia, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was hands down the best weather day we had in Georgia so far! We met Google at Unicoi Gap and then took her jeep to the Cheese Factory site. It was a long ride on yet another forest service road. The weather was nice and cool when we started hiking. We had a gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10],"tags":[507,39,361],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-at-georgia","tag-appalachian-trail","tag-german-shepherd","tag-treeing-walker-coonhound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildernessescapades.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}