{"id":14276,"date":"2018-04-15T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T19:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2018-04-16T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:09:59","slug":"hiking-wv-canaan-valley-state-park-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14276","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Canaan Valley SP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has use-or-lose-leave, so we spent a long weekend in the Canaan area doing lots of hiking.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning we hiked two trails: Blackwater River trail and the Middle Ridge trail. I have pictures from the one and data from the other.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaanresort.com\/\">Canaan Valley State Park<\/a><br \/>\nTrail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvdnr.gov\/Parks\/Maps\/canaanvalley.pdf\">Middle Ridge Trail<\/a><br \/>\nDistance: 2.3 miles (loop)<br \/>\nElevation: 3331-3558 (483 feet gain)<br \/>\nTemperature: 66-74<\/p>\n<p>The Middle Ridge Trail doesn&#8217;t have many scenic vistas, but it does go through several different kinds of areas, and goes by a bog&#8211;it&#8217;s dry right now, so I didn&#8217;t find anything picturesque about the bog, but on the plus side, our feet stayed dry.<\/p>\n<p>I do love the Blackwater River Trail<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/40585654735\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20180413_Canaan_Valley_SP_015\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/796\/40585654735_07faaaf7f5_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20180413_Canaan_Valley_SP_015\"><\/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\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/40585651215\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20180413_Canaan_Valley_SP_045\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/888\/40585651215_eaab55b150_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20180413_Canaan_Valley_SP_045\"><\/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\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27607324138\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20180413_Canaan_Valley_SP_023\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/894\/27607324138_b50e019a6f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20180413_Canaan_Valley_SP_023\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here is the elevation graph for the Middle Ridge Trail.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/middle-ridge.png?resize=400%2C187&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/middle-ridge.png?w=1463&amp;ssl=1 1463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/middle-ridge.png?resize=150%2C70&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/middle-ridge.png?resize=400%2C187&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/middle-ridge.png?resize=768%2C360&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/middle-ridge.png?resize=1024%2C479&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has use-or-lose-leave, so we spent a long weekend in the Canaan area doing lots of hiking. In the morning we hiked two trails: Blackwater River trail and the Middle Ridge trail. I have pictures from the one and data from the other. Location: Canaan Valley State Park Trail: Middle Ridge Trail Distance: 2.3 miles [&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":[1069,22,1068,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-photos","category-state-parks","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3Ig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276","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=14276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}