{"id":157,"date":"2009-05-13T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2009-05-19T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T02:57:18","slug":"at-spivey-gap-to-chestoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"A.T. – Spivey Gap to Chestoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

This section of the AT starts in North Carolina and finishes in Erwin, Tennessee.\u00a0 We parked at Uncle Johnny’s Hiker Hostel in Erwin and he shuttled us up to Spivey Gap which is about 11 miles away by trail.<\/p>\n

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AT Sign near Spivey Gap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s a bit of a climb out of Spivey Gap and a couple short climbs further on in the hike but for the most part it’s downhill with an elevation loss of 2000 feet from the highest point.\u00a0 There are plenty of stream crossings in the first half of the hike.\u00a0\u00a0 No Business Knob Shelter (yes, that’s the name of it) is almost exactly halfway through this hike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mountain Laurels along the AT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last two miles of this hike is pretty much all down.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a long series of switchbacks descending into Erwin.\u00a0\u00a0 To make up for this at every left turn (heading northbound) there’s a rocky overlook of the Nolichucky River with occasional views of Erwin as well.<\/p>\n

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View of the Nolichucky Gorge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With day-sized backpacks, this hike took us just a bit over 6 hours with two stops for food and one stop for a tragic shoelace emergency (thanks random thru-hiker with a lighter!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This section of the AT starts in North Carolina and finishes in Erwin, Tennessee.\u00a0 We parked at Uncle Johnny’s Hiker Hostel in Erwin and he shuttled us up to Spivey Gap which is about 11 miles away by trail. There’s a bit of a climb out of Spivey Gap and a couple short climbs further … Continue reading A.T. – Spivey Gap to Chestoa<\/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-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-cherokee-nf","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}