{"id":13393,"date":"2017-06-11T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13393"},"modified":"2017-06-11T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:11:51","slug":"hiking-wv-holly-river-state-park-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13393","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Holly River State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be honest. This is the first time in years that I seriously considered not completing our planned hike, because I didn’t think I could finish. The hike up the mountain was that steep. Luckily, Michael checked and saw we were almost to the top, so we persevered. I’m glad we finished what we had planned, but I’m sorry to say the Overlook was NOT worth the hike up the mountain.<\/p>\n

Location: Holly River State Park<\/a>
\nTrail: Potato Knob Trail (partial)<\/a>
\nDistance: 5.4 miles
\nElevation: 1855-2677 feet (822 foot gain)
\nPercent Grade for Steepest Part: 24.1 % for 0.4 miles<\/a><\/p>\n

First, the hike up the mountain. It was 24.1 % for 0.4 miles. Part of the reason I almost gave up was because we’d only hiked a third of a mile when I stopped to rest. I thought the mountain portion of the hike was about a mile, and if we were less than halfway there was no way I wanted to continue. Luckily, Michael looked at his map app, and realized we were close to the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n

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Note that there are almost no switch backs, it was just straight up, over fallen trees and rocky ground.<\/p>\n

Here is the elevation graph of the hike.<\/p>\n

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As I said, the overlook was not impressive. Here we are at the overlook.<\/p>\n

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