{"id":246,"date":"2014-04-24T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T23:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/wordpress-happytrails\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-04-24T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T23:47:13","slug":"day-9-deep-gap-shelter-to-franklin-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/happytrails\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Day 9 &#8211; Deep Gap Shelter to Franklin, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hiked about 4 miles early today to catch the 9am shuttle into Franklin. Had some cool morning sun shining down. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/happytrails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wpid-20140424_071425.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20140424_071425.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/happytrails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wpid-20140424_071425.jpg\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning sun in North Carolina<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The shuttle here is run by Ron Haven, who owns the Budget Inn in Franklin, runs numerous daily shuttles for hikers, is Macon county commissioner, and was a semi-professional wrestler from 1976 to 1981. This dude is amazingly friendly and seriously awesome. We showered and laundered up and gorged on some sports bar food for lunch. Later we took\u00a0 yet another Ron Haven &#8211; supplied shuttle out to a small local outfit called &#8220;Walmart&#8221; to buy food for our resupply. Rocked some local pizza from a place called Vito&#8217;s for dinner. Otherwise, it&#8217;s been a mostly slow and relaxing day. Tomorrow we&#8217;re back on the trail. We&#8217;ve got about 4 days of pretty tough hiking in NC ahead, then a day off in Fontana Dam, then we head into Tennessee and the Smokies for some good times next week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Day%209%20-%20Deep%20Gap%20Shelter%20to%20Franklin%2C%20NC&body=http%3A%2F%2Fhnatow.com%2Fhappytrails%2F%3Fp%3D246&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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