{"id":11043,"date":"2013-10-20T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2013-10-20T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:31:47","slug":"weekend-ramblings-summersville-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11043","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Ramblings: Summersville Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summersville Lake is quite interesting. It was built to control flooding of the Gauley River, and has a huge dam.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when I think of dams, I think of the giant cement structure that villains threaten to destroy in movies, to wreak destruction upon an unsuspecting populace.<\/p>\n<p>Summersville dam is different.<\/p>\n<p>Here a picture of the dam, looking up from the Gauley River. If you look closely, you can see cars driving across the dam.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/10371447523\/\" title=\"20131018_Summersville_054 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2857\/10371447523_2de29b51bb.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20131018_Summersville_054\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try this link to see <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=google+map+summersville+dam&#038;ll=38.221611,-80.890124&#038;spn=0.004821,0.009527&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;hnear=Summersville+Lake&#038;gl=us&#038;t=h&#038;z=17\">the satellite view of the dam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Summersville Lake is seasonal: in April it starts to fill, and in early autumn, the water is carefully released, allowing for some of the best white water rafting in the country.<\/p>\n<p>So when we see the lake in October, the water levels are low, so you can see the underlying rock formations, exposed by the water.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/10371253785\/\" title=\"20131018_Summersville_040 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7345\/10371253785_feb7d2636f.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20131018_Summersville_040\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full moon over the lake.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/10371464623\/\" title=\"20131018_Summersville_129 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2860\/10371464623_d9610eb64a.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20131018_Summersville_129\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the Gauley River. It was quite lovely, and I would have enjoyed spending more time hiking around there. Sadly for me, we casually strolled down, and I&#8217;d not bothered to put on my boots or carry my hiking stick. This is important because without those two items, walking on rocks quickly puts a major strain on my bad ankle. <\/p>\n<p>But it was totally worth it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/10371241504\/\" title=\"20131018_Summersville_066 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7413\/10371241504_78d6323f06.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20131018_Summersville_066\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/10371245724\/\" title=\"20131018_Summersville_077 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3765\/10371245724_55eb24daa3.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"20131018_Summersville_077\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summersville Lake is quite interesting. It was built to control flooding of the Gauley River, and has a huge dam. Normally, when I think of dams, I think of the giant cement structure that villains threaten to destroy in movies, to wreak destruction upon an unsuspecting populace. Summersville dam is different. Here a picture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,1058,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-travel-2","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2S7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}