{"id":144,"date":"2022-10-02T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autumnequinox.com\/TheSpiritForest\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:51:58","slug":"cohos-trail-day-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/02\/cohos-trail-day-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohos Trail Day Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was very anxious when I woke up. It stormed all night. Thunder, lightning, and howling winds kept me awake most of the night. I opted not to cook breakfast this morning and just snacked while I packed up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hesitant to leave the comfort of the cabin, I pondered if I should wait out the wind and rain and let my shuttle know I would need to be picked up later as I was heading home for a couple of zeros before tackling my last stretch of trail. I knew it was supposed to clear up later in the morning, but it was still howling wind and rain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/F1758AD1-7543-461A-9042-A573288D890B-590x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to just go for it. I&#8217;d be fine, just take my time and put one foot in front of the other. I was getting low on water again and knew of one spot on the side of mount Weeks that was fairly reliable. To pass the time, I&#8217;d look at the elevation, and give myself a set amount of time to get up to each of the Weeks peaks. 20 minutes? You did it with 5 minutes to spare, good job. The next one, 40 minutes. You did it in 30, nice. Before I knew it, I&#8217;d made it to my water and boosted my confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/F9594C50-348C-414B-AB08-45AACD7372BB-849x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well hydrated and loaded up with what I&#8217;d need for the remainder of the Kilkenny ridge, I headed over to Starr King and Waumbek for lunch. I took a few videos and pictures of the overgrown views. The sun was out finally and I was starting to dry out. After around 20 minutes, I put my pack back on and slogged down the rest of the trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My shuttle was still an hourish out, so instead of waiting at the trailhead, I updated them on my plan to get some of the road walk in, so I&#8217;d have less to do in a few days. I ended up about halfway to the Pondicherry Refuge before being picked up to head home for a much needed shower.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very anxious when I woke up. It stormed all night. Thunder, lightning, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[6,7,9,10,11,12,13],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cohos-trail","category-hiking","tag-adventure","tag-backpacking","tag-cohos-trail","tag-hiking","tag-hiking-adventure","tag-thru-hike","tag-thru-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiritforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}