{"id":4817,"date":"2020-07-18T22:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T14:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2024-08-15T04:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:19:58","slug":"20200718chocolate-gulch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/20200718chocolate-gulch\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 of 2020 Idaho Trip, Chocolate Gulch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third day of my Idaho trip. After a heroic hike to summit Hyndman Peak the previous day, I spent most of the day resting in bed. To make sure that’s not how I “wasted” an entire day of my vacation, I took a short hike of Chocolate Gulch at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday’s summiting Hyndman Peak took a huge toll on my body, despite most of that came from me having too little clothing during the final ascent from the howling wind. I recalled having a running nose for much of the return trip.<\/p>\n

Luckily I had some flexibility built in to my itinerary, so I decided to spend most of the day in resting in bed, trying to recover myself from yesterday’s exhausting trip. (Last thing I wanted was catching a cold while on vacation.)<\/span> Amazingly, by afternoon I felt my running nose had mostly recovered. There wasn’t much daylight left, but I didn’t want to “waste” a day of my vacation to essentially doing nothing, so I browsed some nearby trails and picked a short but still interesting route, and that’s the Chocolate Gulch Loop Trail.<\/p>\n

The entire trail was 8.5km with 260m elevation gain, which seemed like a perfect fit for my recovering body. Here’s GPS tracking:<\/p>\n