{"id":20,"date":"2007-05-05T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-07-03T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T16:00:23","slug":"mcdowell-woods-score-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"McDowell Woods Score-O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/mcdowell.jpg\" title=\"McDowell Woods\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/mcdowell.jpg\" alt=\"McDowell Woods\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were in Charlotte for a couple reasons.\u00a0 First &#8211; we had to pick up a refrigerator so that we can brew lagers as well as ales, but that&#8217;s probably a whole separate entry.\u00a0 The other reason was the Carolina Orienteering Klubb&#8217;s Score-O meet in McDowell Nature Reserve. \u00a0There was a two-hour limit on it but it&#8217;s still good practice for some of the 24-hour races we&#8217;re planning to do later this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/flag.jpg\" title=\"orienteering flag\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/flag.jpg\" alt=\"orienteering flag\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It had been raining all morning so pushing through the foliage left us drenched fairly quickly.\u00a0 Generally we weren&#8217;t real fast but I think our route choices and navigation were good.\u00a0 We ended up in 4th place overall, including a stumbling sort of sprint through a swamp at the end to get back to the finish line inside the 2 hour time limit (actually it was more like right exactly at the 2 hour limit).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/bridges.jpg\" title=\"Bridge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/bridges.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having already involved beer (or beer-related acquisitions) and orienteering in the day, there was nothing left to do but go visit a new site (for us) on the North Carolina BBQ Trail.\u00a0 This is Bridge&#8217;s in Shelby, NC.\u00a0 Here you can find, well&#8230; pork.\u00a0 Bridge&#8217;s has a fairly strict interpretation of the NC BBQ menu with pork and slaw dominating (although the deviled egg sandwich is vaguely intriguing).\u00a0 The pork is chopped, the sauce is a warmed tomato-vinegar concoction and the hush puppies are particularly good in pimiento cheese.\u00a0 (That was sort of an accident originally but it worked out well.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in Charlotte for a couple reasons.\u00a0 First &#8211; we had to pick up a refrigerator so that we can brew lagers as well as ales, but that&#8217;s probably a whole separate entry.\u00a0 The other reason was the Carolina Orienteering Klubb&#8217;s Score-O meet in McDowell Nature Reserve. \u00a0There was a two-hour limit on it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McDowell Woods Score-O<\/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":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbeque","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}