{"id":12795,"date":"2016-05-28T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T13:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12795"},"modified":"2016-05-28T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:06:49","slug":"hiking-wv-spruce-knob-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12795","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Spruce Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This wasn&#8217;t much of a hike, but it was beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/mnf\/recarea\/?recid=7053\">Spruce Knob<\/a> is the highest peak in WV, and as it&#8217;s in a rural area (what you see when you look out is forests and the occasional farm.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Spruce Knob<br \/>\nDistance: .85 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 4,827-4,859 ft<br \/>\nGrade: 0.2% (included two-story observation tower)<\/p>\n<p>Location: Spruce Knob Lake<br \/>\nDistance: 1.19 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 3,838-3,870 ft<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27263007386\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_018\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/8\/7302\/27263007386_3af7143f19_z.jpg?resize=640%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" alt=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_018\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27263008186\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_002\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/8\/7295\/27263008186_8478bbbe19_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_002\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27263010486\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_013\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7586\/27263010486_cdb977029c_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_013\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>We also stopped at Spruce Knob Lake.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27263002376\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_Lake_044\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7299\/27263002376_19f2fe275b_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_Lake_044\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27263003176\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_Lake_051\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7542\/27263003176_837e7b6853_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160526_Spruce_Knob_Lake_051\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wasn&#8217;t much of a hike, but it was beautiful. 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Location: Spruce Knob Distance: .85 miles Elevation: 4,827-4,859 ft Grade: 0.2% (included two-story observation tower) Location: Spruce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1069,1070,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-national-parkforest","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3kn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795","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=12795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}