{"id":13172,"date":"2022-06-23T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rexisretired.com\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2022-06-23T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:01:07","slug":"it-was-only-300-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexisretired.com\/?p=13172","title":{"rendered":"It was only 300 yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our stops while traveling south on the Blue Ridge Park was to Mount Mitchel. Mount Mitchel is the highest point east of the of the Mississippi. From the parking lot it&#8217;s ONLY 300 yards to the summit, no mention was made as to how steep it was. Mary still struggling to regain some stamina had to stop 3 times on the way up. 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