{"id":14931,"date":"2019-06-24T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14931"},"modified":"2019-06-23T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:38:09","slug":"hiking-wv-blackwater-canyon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14931","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Blackwater Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sickly for about two weeks, getting over some kind of cold\/respiratory thingy. So yesterday we wanted to hike somewhere close, and take a hike that wasn&#8217;t too strenuous.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, we have a strange definition of strenuous.<\/p>\n<p>We ended up going to Thomas\/Davis because it&#8217;s a short-ish drive, and there are tons of places to hike. We were considering the Canaan Wilderness, but I looked through the hiking books on the way down, and decided we should try some more hiking in the Blackwater Canyon (across the gorge from Blackwater Falls State Park).<\/p>\n<p>Location: Blackwater Canyon<br \/>\nTrails: Allegheny and Limerock Trails<br \/>\nDistance: 8.2 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 2863-3118 feet (590 feet rise)<\/p>\n<p>It seems that for us, 8.2 miles turned out to be taking it easy. We did have a much slower pace than we normally hike (30 min mile vs 20 min mile) and the majority of the hike was on a railroad grade trail, so it was a slower elevation rise. Essentially, we parked, and hikeed out until we decided we were ready to turn around.<\/p>\n<p>The temperatures were perfect for hiking, the weather was lovely, and aside from one dirt biker on the RR grade trail, we didn&#8217;t see anyone else while we were out.<\/p>\n<p>So: a good day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/48114630607\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_004\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48114630607_dded5b847d_z.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_004\"><\/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\/48114576963\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_021\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48114576963_b9e362b7c1_z.jpg?resize=360%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_021\"><\/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\/48114627417\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_020\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48114627417_bb1bed1798_z.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_020\"><\/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\/48114627707\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_007\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48114627707_f758a3fa2a_z.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"2019-06-22_Blackwater_Canyon_007\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sickly for about two weeks, getting over some kind of cold\/respiratory thingy. So yesterday we wanted to hike somewhere close, and take a hike that wasn&#8217;t too strenuous. Apparently, we have a strange definition of strenuous. We ended up going to Thomas\/Davis because it&#8217;s a short-ish drive, and there are tons of places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1069,1070,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14931","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-3SP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931","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=14931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}