{"id":16293,"date":"2020-12-14T21:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T02:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=16293"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T02:48:42","slug":"hiking-wv-blackwater-canyon-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/16293","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Blackwater Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are actually from two weeks ago. I was just to lazy to post them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d decided to hike around the Blackwater Canyon. Nothing strenuous, but I knew there would be some pretty views and that we would be unlike to see other people.<\/p>\n<p>When they tell you the road isn&#8217;t suitable for passenger vehicles, they really do mean it.<\/p>\n<p>We parked before the road completely degraded and walked to the Allegheny \/ Canyon Rim Trail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50665730303\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_056\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50665730303_6643ac8483.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_056\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just past the Canyon Rim Trail, if you watch the side of the road you&#8217;ll find a short trail out to the overlook, where you can see into the Blackwater Canyon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50666475636\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_014\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50666475636_25ff06bcf3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_014\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can hear the creek running below, but even with the leaves fallen could not catch sight of it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50666553042\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50666553042_b3923ae46d.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_009\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Between the overlook and Canyon Rim Trailhead you can look for another side trail to a waterfall.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50666550802\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_023\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50666550802_815beeaf8c.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_023\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is a scramble and not recommended for all users.<\/p>\n<p>But it is lovely.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50665728748\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_030\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50665728748_b5657b3d91.jpg?resize=296%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"296\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_030\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The canyon rim trail itself has several creek crossings at the start, but is then wooded \/ rhododendron thickets.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/50666474326\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_050\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50666474326_8cc85a1ae0.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_050\"><\/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\/50666471201\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_043\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50666471201_b028f69854.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2020-11-28_Blackwater_Canyon_043\"><\/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\/50665728203\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" 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I was just to lazy to post them. We&#8217;d decided to hike around the Blackwater Canyon. Nothing strenuous, but I knew there would be some pretty views and that we would be unlike to see other people. When they tell you the road isn&#8217;t suitable for passenger vehicles, [&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-16293","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-4eN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293","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=16293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}