{"id":29,"date":"2007-05-17T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-07-03T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:57:16","slug":"craggy-pinnacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Craggy Pinnacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/craggy_trail.jpg\" title=\"Craggy Trail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/craggy_trail.jpg\" alt=\"Craggy Trail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With mom recovering from back problems, naturally we dragged her up a reasonably large mountain.\u00a0 Actually, we&#8217;d never been\u00a0up Craggy Pinnacle before but it was reportedly an easy hike with a good view.\u00a0 Unfortunately the rhododendrons were not blooming yet.\u00a0 The hike is about 3\/4 of a mile, fairly steep.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told that if you&#8217;re recovering from back problems it is quite challenging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/craggy_dome.jpg\" title=\"Craggy Dome\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/craggy_dome.jpg\" alt=\"Craggy Dome\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summit of Craggy Pinnacle has several observation decks with good views in all directions along the Blue Ridge Parkway and back towards Asheville.\u00a0 The Craggy Mountains are a small sub-range of the Blue Ridge which feature Craggy Pinnacle (we&#8217;re standing on it in this picture), Craggy Dome (that&#8217;s it across the parking lot from here), and Craggy Mountain (behind us).\u00a0 Besides being creatively named, these peaks are all near 6000 ft although only Craggy Dome (the lump out there) is over 6000 ft.\u00a0 We hiked it previously for the South Beyond 6000.\u00a0 It looks gentle from here but there&#8217;s no real trail to the top so it involves foraging through blackberries and rhododendrons.\u00a0 The summit does not have much of a view.\u00a0 In fact, it looked vaguely like this up there when we previously visited:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/craggy_peak2.jpg\" title=\"Craggy Dome Summit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/craggy_peak2.jpg\" alt=\"Craggy Dome Summit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With mom recovering from back problems, naturally we dragged her up a reasonably large mountain.\u00a0 Actually, we&#8217;d never been\u00a0up Craggy Pinnacle before but it was reportedly an easy hike with a good view.\u00a0 Unfortunately the rhododendrons were not blooming yet.\u00a0 The hike is about 3\/4 of a mile, fairly steep.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told that if you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Craggy Pinnacle<\/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":[13,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway","category-hiking","category-sb-6000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}