{"id":14535,"date":"2018-09-26T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14535"},"modified":"2018-09-30T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T18:10:41","slug":"hiking-wv-dolly-sods-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14535","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Dolly Sods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we had a long weekend and didn&#8217;t have to drive, we wanted to do a long hike on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many places to choose from in the Canaan Valley area, but we eventually settled on Dolly Sods, and a trail we&#8217;d wanted to hike before, in the hopes that it being a Friday morning we wouldn&#8217;t see so many people.<\/p>\n<p>We saw&#8230; fewer people than we would on a Saturday, but we still saw more people than I particularly wanted to on a hike in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/mnf\/recarea\/?recid=12366\">Dolly Sods Wilderness<\/a><br \/>\nTrails: Rocky Ridge, Blackbird Knob Trails<br \/>\nDistance: 7.6 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 3757-4184 feet (1137 feet gain)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/31140196308\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_038\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1947\/31140196308_ee015c3b08_z.jpg?resize=640%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" alt=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_038\"><\/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\/31140188418\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_054\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1959\/31140188418_e3bc47548a_z.jpg?resize=640%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" alt=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_054\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Blackbird Knob Trail<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/43200943590\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_057\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1957\/43200943590_53ccb99b4e_z.jpg?resize=311%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"311\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_057\"><\/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\/31140191578\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_049\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1936\/31140191578_de582eb141_z.jpg?resize=311%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"311\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_049\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the trail really is that rocky and wet and muddy. So many people hike Dolly Sods that everything is very worn and never gets a chance to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the wilderness being busier than one would expect, views like this make the trip worth it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/30076453367\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_013\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1952\/30076453367_055e35a41b_z.jpg?resize=640%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" alt=\"2018-09-21_Dolly_Sods_013\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we had a long weekend and didn&#8217;t have to drive, we wanted to do a long hike on Friday. There are so many places to choose from in the Canaan Valley area, but we eventually settled on Dolly Sods, and a trail we&#8217;d wanted to hike before, in the hopes that it being a [&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-14535","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-3Mr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535","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=14535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}