{"id":325,"date":"2025-07-11T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:39:46","slug":"great-first-day-in-the-woods-on-the-florida-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Great First Day in the Woods on the Florida Trail!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

7\/11\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the inability to hike the Florida Trail within Eglin AFB due to closures for military exercise, we traveled 1 hour, 45 minutes to the trailhead on US 331 at the eastern edge of Eglin AFB. This was a beautiful hike beginning about 6:20 AM on relatively smooth ground going through wooded areas mixed with prairie areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The orange blazes marking the FT are well-placed most of the time, but somehow I got turned around in the Lafayette Creek area and ended repeating a 1-1.5 mile section right at the middle of my planned 12-mile hike to Forgotten Creek Campsite at SOBO mile 142.2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I rejuvenated my spirit by taking a soak in the cool, clear, and very refreshing river! After arriving at the campsite about 1:30 PM, I rested, drank lots of water with Liquid IV electrolytes, filtered water to drink, and took another refreshing dip in the creek! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forgotten Creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New ultralight tent \u2014 2 pounds!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

was able to set up my new tent without any problem, enjoyed a wonderful dinner consisting of Raman noodles with chicken, added olive oil, beef jerky, trail mix, and water flavored with Crystal Light. This meal felt like a gourmet meal compared to the very distasteful freeze-dried food used on the AT! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All is quiet in the woods now, and the temperature is going down from the max of 94 degrees with a heat index of 105 earlier this afternoon. My Ursack Almitey bag is safely hung away from my campsite with all food and garbage. Bedtime will come quickly tonight since I hope to start hiking at sunrise around 5:30 AM tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7\/11\/25 Due to the inability to hike the Florida Trail within Eglin AFB due to closures for military exercise, we traveled 1 hour, 45 minutes to the trailhead on US 331 at the eastern edge of Eglin AFB. This was a beautiful hike beginning about 6:20 AM on relatively smooth ground going through wooded areas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida-trail","tag-florida-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goforthintotheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}