{"id":6948,"date":"2023-11-16T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=6948"},"modified":"2023-12-07T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:58:15","slug":"say-goodbye-to-overmountain-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/say-goodbye-to-overmountain-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Say goodbye to Overmountain Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Barn 11\/15\/23\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfV4FX9ZE7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I stayed at Overmoutain Shelter on June 2, 1996 during my 1st of four chunk hikes on the Appalachian Trail. You can even see the picture I took for my journal <a href=\"http:\/\/dankohn.info\/~trail96\/at_96log10.php\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope they saved the wood and will use it to build a new shelter in it&#8217;s place. It was a lovely spot for a shelter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand why they took it down&#8230;even in 1996 I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I would not recommend staying here in cold or windy weather, since the walls all have 1 inch spaces between the boards, but it is the largest &#8220;shelter&#8221; I have seen on the AT with good views out the &#8220;Window&#8221;.. I guess it could hold 40 people or so. Good water source, but a little far away (but luckily we got water on the way here).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear that it was deemed unsafe and they had to tear it down&#8230;&#8230;even the trail has to change with time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed at Overmoutain Shelter on June 2, 1996 during my 1st of four chunk hikes on the Appalachian Trail. You can even see the picture I took for my journal HERE. I hope they saved the wood and will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/say-goodbye-to-overmountain-shelter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}