{"id":12524,"date":"2015-08-31T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2015-08-30T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T19:05:43","slug":"hiking-wv-new-river-gorge-brooks-and-sandstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12524","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: New River Gorge: Brooks and Sandstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t take a long hike at New River Gorge on Saturday, but the trails made up for that by being very steep. <\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/neri\/planyourvisit\/hiking.htm\">New River Gorge<\/a><br \/>\nTrail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/neri\/planyourvisit\/sandstone-brooks-area-trails.htm\">Big Branch Trail<\/a><br \/>\nDistance: 1.5 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 1256 &#8211; 1713<\/p>\n<p>We hiked counter-clockwise, so for the first half of the trail we were gasping for breath and wondering why anyone wanted to hike this trail.<\/p>\n<p>Then we started down, following the creek.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"false\" data-footer=\"false\" data-context=\"false\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/20995849932\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150829_New_River_Gorge_006\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5780\/20995849932_7c965dcbe6_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20150829_New_River_Gorge_006\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"false\" data-footer=\"false\" data-context=\"false\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/21013483291\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150829_New_River_Gorge_012\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/708\/21013483291_08ae085525_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20150829_New_River_Gorge_012\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"false\" data-footer=\"false\" data-context=\"false\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/20995998192\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150829_New_River_Gorge_010\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/646\/20995998192_0232986136_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20150829_New_River_Gorge_010\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t take a long hike at New River Gorge on Saturday, but the trails made up for that by being very steep. Location: New River Gorge Trail: Big Branch Trail Distance: 1.5 miles Elevation: 1256 &#8211; 1713 We hiked counter-clockwise, so for the first half of the trail we were gasping for breath and [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1069,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3g0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524","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=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}