{"id":876,"date":"2015-11-28T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2015-11-28T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:55:09","slug":"the-lone-star-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"The Lone Star Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to take Thanksgiving week off and hike part of the Lone Star Trail. \u00a0It’s a 100 mile trail north of Houston. \u00a0I had intended to do about 60 miles over 4 days but had to adjust due to trail conditions.<\/p>\n

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The trail is mostly tree covered and flat. \u00a0The route I took was a southern loop that ended up to be seldom used and I had to do a lot of bush whacking. \u00a0It was hunting season so it required that I camp in designated camping locations. \u00a0The camping spot\u00a0I wanted was 18 miles away at the junction of the southern loop and main trail. \u00a0I had gotten to the trailhead around 10:30am, and this time of year it gets dark around 5:30pm so I needed to move quickly to reach the campsite.<\/p>\n

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I was right on time until mile 15, when the trail\u00a0started to get really soggy. \u00a0It eventually turned into a swamp and after trying unsuccessfully to circumvent, I ended up wading through a foot of water for about a half of mile.<\/p>\n

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After the water, I got to camp right at sunset. \u00a0I quickly set\u00a0my tent up, cooked dinner, and pumped water. \u00a0It was pitch black in the forest and getting cold fast. \u00a0I awoke the next morning to temperatures in the 30’s but a sunny day.<\/p>\n

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My hike was only 9 miles that day. \u00a0I followed the shoreline of a large lake to a state park campground. \u00a0The campground was packed with car-campers so I walked an additional mile to the overflow field. \u00a0It was mostly open, but there were a few “mega camps” of good ole’ boys that had set up for hunting season. \u00a0It was a lazy afternoon of reading and listening to their music. \u00a0The night was uneventful except for an early morning entry of a few loud drunks.<\/p>\n

The next morning, I left by 7:30 and hiked 20 miles to the start in just over 6 hours. \u00a0I was back in Austin by 5pm that day. \u00a0My total trip was close to 50 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to take Thanksgiving week off and hike part of the Lone Star Trail. \u00a0It’s a 100 mile trail north of Houston. \u00a0I had intended to do about 60 miles over 4 days but had to adjust due to trail conditions. The trail is mostly tree covered and flat. \u00a0The route I took was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}