{"id":14376,"date":"2018-05-14T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14376"},"modified":"2018-05-13T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T16:48:31","slug":"hiking-wv-new-river-gorge-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14376","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: New River Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;d been awhile, we headed to New River Gorge, and went to one of the (many) areas we hadn&#8217;t hiked before: the Thurmond area.<\/p>\n<p>We first went to see the town of Thurmond (separate post) which has been all but a ghost town for decades (the post office closed in 1995). Then we took our hike. We chose the Stone Cliff Trail, when runs beside the New River for its length.<\/p>\n<p>What was particularly nice was that aside from the day-use area and the very start of the trail, we didn&#8217;t see anyone and had the trail to ourselves. We hiked 2 1\/4 miles out&#8211;close to the end&#8211;but then I noticed that it was already 3, and we still had to stop at the brewery and eat dinner and then drive home, so we turned around and headed back.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/neri\/index.htm\">New River Gorge, Thurmond<\/a><br \/>\nTrail: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/neri\/planyourvisit\/thurmond-and-cunard-area-trails.htm\">Stone Cliff Trail<\/a> (partial)<br \/>\nDistance: 4.5 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 980-1253 feet<br \/>\nTemperature: 83-85 F<\/p>\n<p>Because the trail runs beside the river it is quite flat, and thus an easy hike.<\/p>\n<p>Stream tumbling down the mountainside<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/42035522492\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-05-12_NRG_Thurmond_54\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/955\/42035522492_008b5fac57_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2018-05-12_NRG_Thurmond_54\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stream crossing<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/42035517852\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-05-12_NRG_Thurmond_53\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/961\/42035517852_f5fdcfff94_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2018-05-12_NRG_Thurmond_53\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;d been awhile, we headed to New River Gorge, and went to one of the (many) areas we hadn&#8217;t hiked before: the Thurmond area. We first went to see the town of Thurmond (separate post) which has been all but a ghost town for decades (the post office closed in 1995). Then we took [&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":[1069,1070,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-national-parkforest","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3JS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376","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=14376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}