{"id":15078,"date":"2019-08-25T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T00:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=15078"},"modified":"2019-08-25T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T00:56:11","slug":"hiking-wv-blackwater-canyon-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/15078","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Blackwater Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned previously, the monitor on my Asus laptop died, so although we did take a lovely hike a couple weeks ago at the Cranberry Wilderness, I did not manage to write about it or post any pictures. <\/p>\n<p>This weekend Michael was still recovering from the start of school (couple weeks of 10-12 hours days. Ugh.) so we didn&#8217;t want to go far, so the Blackwater Falls \/ Canaan Valley area it was.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered that it&#8217;d been a couple years since I&#8217;d taken any pictures of Douglas Falls, so that&#8217;s where we headed, and then continued out the defunct rail trail (it&#8217;s private property, so the trail is not maintained for 5 1\/2 miles, but it was perfectly fine to hike).<\/p>\n<p>The fun part was our argument as to whether Michael has seen Pace Point or not. I&#8217;m pretty sure he didn&#8217;t. We did definitely see Lindy Point though. (We&#8217;ve argued for years as to whether you can see Lindy Point from Pase Point. I say definitely not.)<\/p>\n<p>Location: Blackwater Canyon Rail Trail<br \/>\nDistance: 6.2 miles (partial, out and back)<br \/>\nElevation: 2755-2918 feet (410 feet gain)<\/p>\n<p>Definitely Lindy Point, as seen from across the river.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/48620684281\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_073\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48620684281_d2618ded43_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_073\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is what Michael says is Pase Point. I say NOPE.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/48620684951\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_084\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48620684951_7068b23b39_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_084\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The old coke ovens along the trail are AMAZING.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/48620690071\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_114\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48620690071_2cb6206f54_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_114\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a lovely trail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/48620819327\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_071\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48620819327_31a7acbebf_z.jpg?resize=443%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"443\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_071\"><\/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\/48620825777\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_091\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48620825777_9d0653da65_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_091\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Falls<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/48620329253\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_045\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48620329253_cb872a6dd7_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"2019-08-24_Blackwater_Canyon_045\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lovely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned previously, the monitor on my Asus laptop died, so although we did take a lovely hike a couple weeks ago at the Cranberry Wilderness, I did not manage to write about it or post any pictures. This weekend Michael was still recovering from the start of school (couple weeks of 10-12 hours [&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-15078","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-3Vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15078","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=15078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}