{"id":249,"date":"2009-08-09T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-08-18T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T04:08:56","slug":"silvermine-bald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Silvermine Bald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Black Balsam parking lot, it&#8217;s about a 5 to 6 mile loop along the Little Sam trail to Chestnut Bald and then back around to the Balsams on the MST and the Art Loeb Trail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250\" title=\"blueberry_field\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blueberry_field.jpg\" alt=\"Berry Field\" width=\"432\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blueberry_field.jpg 432w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blueberry_field-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berry Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In early August, we were able to collect a bit more than a pint of wild blueberries. We could have almost any number of blackberries if we&#8217;d wanted as well but we have plenty of those in the meadow at home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251\" title=\"view_towards_looking_glass\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/view_towards_looking_glass.jpg\" alt=\"View towards Looking Glass Rock\" width=\"440\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/view_towards_looking_glass.jpg 440w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/view_towards_looking_glass-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View towards Looking Glass Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the view south from the saddle between Chestnut Bald and Silvermine Bald, neither of which are particularly bald these days. There are good views further along the Art Loeb Trail and also good open meadow campsites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Black Balsam parking lot, it&#8217;s about a 5 to 6 mile loop along the Little Sam trail to Chestnut Bald and then back around to the Balsams on the MST and the Art Loeb Trail. In early August, we were able to collect a bit more than a pint of wild blueberries. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silvermine Bald<\/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":[13,4,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway","category-hiking","category-mountains-to-sea-trail","category-pisgah-nf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}