{"id":170,"date":"2009-04-12T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-05-27T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T01:13:16","slug":"lovers-leap-hot-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Lover’s Leap & Hot Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lover’s Leap is a popular overlook of the French Broad River and the town of Hot Springs, North Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a fairly short hike up from the parking area just above the Hot Springs bridge.<\/p>\n

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Hot Springs from the A.T.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is the view about halfway up which also happens to be the Appalachian Trail through here.\u00a0\u00a0 The rocks themselves are located at a trail junction and are named (supposedly) after a Cherokee legend.<\/p>\n

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Lovers Leap Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’ve been hiking southbound on the A.T.\u00a0 this would be a sudden and dramatic viewpoint.\u00a0\u00a0 If you’ve come up from Hot Springs though it’s just a slightly clearer view of what you’ve been looking at for the last half hour.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From here, we continued on the Applachian Trail which wraps around the ridge to Pump Gap.\u00a0\u00a0 About a half mile or so from Lovers Leap there are good views up the French Broad River.<\/p>\n

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Frank Bell's Rapid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank Bell’s rapid – the most difficult on the commercially rafted section of the French Broad is visible way off in the distance.\u00a0 At Pump Gap, we followed the pump gap trail back down to the trailhead which is a pleasant hike along a stream.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, it’s a particularly steep descent at first and having hiked up it in the past (see the Mill Ridge entry) we can say we much prefer going down it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lover’s Leap is a popular overlook of the French Broad River and the town of Hot Springs, North Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a fairly short hike up from the parking area just above the Hot Springs bridge. \u00a0 This is the view about halfway up which also happens to be the Appalachian Trail through here.\u00a0\u00a0 The rocks … Continue reading Lover’s Leap & Hot Springs<\/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":[8,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}