{"id":14522,"date":"2018-09-24T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:53:02","slug":"hiking-wv-canaan-wildlife-refuge-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14522","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Canaan Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did two hikes at the Canaan Wildlife Refuge. A hike along the Beale Trail that&#8217;d we&#8217;d done before, but chose because it was easy, because it was raining.<\/p>\n<p>The first hike was new to us, partway up Cabin Mountain. We considered hiking to the top of the trail, but were afraid it&#8217;d be dark on the way down, and I&#8217;d trip over everything.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge<br \/>\nTrails: Middle Ridge and Sand Run Trails<br \/>\nDistance: 3.6 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 3246-3571 feet (597 ft gain)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/29959747777\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1904\/29959747777_8c287e7854_z.jpg?resize=640%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" alt=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_009\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Is that&#8230; a bridge?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/44846083572\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_003\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1956\/44846083572_ae606d52e0_z.jpg?resize=436%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"436\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_003\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes! A completely useless bridge!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/44846082282\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_002\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1964\/44846082282_cc6894bdfb_z.jpg?resize=640%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" alt=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_002\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michael: They need to mow this bridge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/31023110358\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_012\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1957\/31023110358_9f08700e41_z.jpg?resize=311%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"311\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2018-09-22_Canaan_Valley_WR_012\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All kidding aside, it was a nice, if rather steep hike, and I definitely want to hike up to the top of the Cabin Mountain Trial to see the view.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Canaan Wildlife Refuge<br \/>\nTrail: Beall Trails<br \/>\nDistance: ~3 miles (I forgot to turn on the GPS until half a mile in)<br \/>\nElevation: 3151-3375 feet<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s raining. Where shall we hike? A bog of course!<\/p>\n<p>At the Bog Overlook<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/31023107728\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-23_Canaan_Valley_WR_002\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1956\/31023107728_1e353b7636_z.jpg?resize=640%2C312&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"312\" alt=\"2018-09-23_Canaan_Valley_WR_002\"><\/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\/29959745437\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-23_Canaan_Valley_WR_009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1979\/29959745437_16f242ff84_z.jpg?resize=640%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" alt=\"2018-09-23_Canaan_Valley_WR_009\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did two hikes at the Canaan Wildlife Refuge. A hike along the Beale Trail that&#8217;d we&#8217;d done before, but chose because it was easy, because it was raining. The first hike was new to us, partway up Cabin Mountain. We considered hiking to the top of the trail, but were afraid it&#8217;d be dark [&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-14522","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-3Me","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","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=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}