{"id":2550,"date":"2022-12-03T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:01:07","slug":"family-vacation-day-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"Family Vacation Day Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

7\/19\/22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family Vacation Day Ten: Devil’s Racetrack, Cove Lake State Park – 8.4 miles. Multiple beautiful waterfalls and overlooks! *Devil’s Racetrack Trail likely got it’s name because the first half of the hike the trail was lined with poison ivy. Then we hit boulder climbs. The blueberries and blackberries were tempting and delicious but the thorny vines literally attacked us! There were cliffs and steep drop offs. Ultimately we had to turn back because the thorny vines were too thick.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just the three of us today.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cumberland Trail ,Volunteer Loop, and Devil’s Racetrack:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is going to be fun!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Up and away. This hike had a lot of climbs.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There has been quite a bit of poison ivy along the trail, but we are definitely avoiding it!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple of bridges early on.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now the really hard part!!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The vegetation was pretty thick at times.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A stile over the barbed wire fence.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eastern Box Turtle.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A new trail friend for Lizzy.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Quite the rock pile!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We made it to the water<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A great resting spot!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waterfall number one!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy place\u00a0\"\ud83d\udc95\".<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great place to relax.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And a great place to cool down!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exploring.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They had enough of that tunnel!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Heading up to more waterfalls.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great section of the trail!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A big waterfall:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beautiful\u00a0\"\ud83d\udc99\".<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy\u00a0\"\ud83d\ude0a\"<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One more look.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Up we go for a look at the top waterfalls:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up we go for a look at the top waterfalls.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful\u00a0\"\ud83d\udc99\".<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Off we go to Devil’s Racetrack.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were wild blueberries<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They stopped to climb this big boulder!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was a bit of a challenge but they did it!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking for a possible alternative way down.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were blackberry bushes everywhere!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We made it to the top of Devil’s Racetrack Overlook.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So brave!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great place to enjoy the view.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hello little guy.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had to walk along this edge as part of the trail:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out that tree on the left.<\/strong>
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We weren’t sure what these were so no eating.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The blackberry vines literally started attacking us!!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It got worse the farther we went.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We ended up having to retreat and go back.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great views.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rest break.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Time to cool off\u00a0\"\ud83d\udca6\". <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ahh!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Skink! So cute!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another turtle.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We got a bit scratched up by the blackberry thorns, and we all fell without injury. It was a tough hike but we had a great day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tired but feeling great about that awesome adventure!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7\/19\/22 Family Vacation Day Ten: Devil’s Racetrack, Cove Lake State Park – 8.4 miles. Multiple beautiful waterfalls and overlooks! *Devil’s Racetrack Trail likely got it’s name because the first half of the hike the trail was lined with poison ivy. Then we hit boulder climbs. The blueberries and blackberries were tempting and delicious but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}