{"id":16147,"date":"2020-09-10T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=16147"},"modified":"2020-09-09T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T22:47:58","slug":"traveling-wv-gaudineer-smoke-hole-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/16147","title":{"rendered":"Traveling WV: Gaudineer &#038; Smoke Hole Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming that everyone who could be, would be outdoors over the weekend, we decided for a scenic drive on Monday, with the hope that most people would be packing up and going home, so perhaps we could find some places that weren&#8217;t too crowded.<\/p>\n<p>Our primary destination was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/mnf\/recarea\/?recid=9917\">Gaudineer Scenic Area<\/a>, because it&#8217;s a place we hadn&#8217;t visited before. The secondary objective was a drive around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/mnf\/recreation\/camping-cabins\/recarea\/?recid=9916&#038;actid=29\">Smoke Hole Canyon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/mnf\/recarea\/?recid=9917\">Gaudineer Scenic Area<\/a><br \/>\nTrails: Gaudineer Knob; Old Growth Trail<br \/>\nDistance: 0.5 miles; 0.7 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 4500 feet; 4093-4186 feet<\/p>\n<p>Gaudineer Knob had a somewhat narrow overlook, but the forest itself was beautiful.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50319768892\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_013\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50319768892_1c9ffedd7b.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_013\"><\/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\/50319596571\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_031\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50319596571_22725c2a82.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_031\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also lots of adorable mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50319594621\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_026\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50319594621_2cc1ff6287.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_026\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A little bit down the mountain was the old growth forest. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50318926533\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_038\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50318926533_8db06f59cf.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_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\/50319595796\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_040\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50319595796_25c57c3165.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2020-09-07_Gaudineer_040\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not very many large trees there, but it was still a very pretty short hike.<\/p>\n<p>Then we headed north to Smoke Hole Canyon, where we stopped briefly at Eagle Rocks, which we hadn&#8217;t visited before.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50319774727\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-09-07_Eagle_Rock_009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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Our primary destination was Gaudineer Scenic Area, because it&#8217;s a place [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-16147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-national-parkforest","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-4cr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147","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=16147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}