{"id":111,"date":"2008-08-31T19:55:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T00:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-09-12T20:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:02:31","slug":"max-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Max Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_3449.jpg\" title=\"Max Patch View\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_3451.jpg\" title=\"Trout and Mountains\"><\/a>Ok, so we were just at Max Patch a few months ago.\u00a0\u00a0 However, since we were unable to get up the road to Snowbird Mountain, which was our intended hike, we came back to Max Patch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_3449.jpg\" title=\"Max Patch View\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_3449.jpg\" alt=\"Max Patch View\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, the views are superb.\u00a0\u00a0 The meadows had recently been mown so there was more picnicking and camping than usual on the summit.\u00a0\u00a0 We hiked up to Max Patch along the Appalachian Trail from where it crosses the forest road.\u00a0 After summitting, we followed the trail back down through a patch of forest.\u00a0 Ultimately it follows a series of meadows that make up an equestrian trail on a parallel ridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roaring Fork Shelter is only a couple miles north of Max Patch Road.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t have direct access to the Roaring Fork river but you&#8217;ll have crossed the stream a couple times getting there and its a good place to stop for a snack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_3451.jpg\" title=\"Trout and Mountains\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_3451.jpg\" alt=\"Trout and Mountains\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the hike back, we followed a combination of the equestrian trail and the Max Patch loop trail which stays below the summit but still crosses some big meadows and has excellent views into North Carolina.\u00a0 Trout found meadow hiking to be altogether confusing as it&#8217;s difficult to determine where the trail is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so we were just at Max Patch a few months ago.\u00a0\u00a0 However, since we were unable to get up the road to Snowbird Mountain, which was our intended hike, we came back to Max Patch.\u00a0\u00a0 As always, the views are superb.\u00a0\u00a0 The meadows had recently been mown so there was more picnicking and camping &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Max Patch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-cherokee-nf","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}