{"id":16607,"date":"2021-04-07T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:30:17","slug":"hiking-wv-high-falls-of-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/16607","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: High Falls of Cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years now we&#8217;ve been meaning to hike to the High Falls of Cheat, but never managed to get there. So we decided to check another trail off our list last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diyoutdoors.wvu.edu\/swimming-holes\/high-falls-of-the-cheat\">High Falls of Cheat Trail<\/a><br \/>\nDistance: 7.6 miles (out and back)<br \/>\nElevation: 2927-3701 feet (1469&#8242; gain) ~10% grade on the mountain<\/p>\n<p>See that ridge-line in the distance? That&#8217;s we we&#8217;re going up and over.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/51095413599\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_016\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51095413599_d54855d3c0.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_016\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a bit chilly when we set out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/51095335236\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_013\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51095335236_a4cb1d67ae.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_013\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And even cooler along the ridge-line.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/51095879918\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_018\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51095879918_6a202c7ef1.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_018\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Down the other side of the mountain, and after a 2\/3rds mile walk down the railroad tracks (which kinda sucked, to be honest), we came to the falls.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/51095413364\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_036\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51095413364_1e05cd06e9.jpg?resize=500%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" alt=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_036\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shavers Fork River<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/51095879613\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_057\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51095879613_510dd4d90e.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"2021-04-03_Upper_Falls_Cheat_057\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the the graph of the elevation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation-400x184.png?resize=400%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"High Falls of Cheat Elevation\" width=\"400\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?resize=400%2C184&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?resize=1024%2C471&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?resize=150%2C69&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?resize=768%2C353&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?resize=1536%2C707&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/high-falls-cheat-elevation.png?w=1708&amp;ssl=1 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years now we&#8217;ve been meaning to hike to the High Falls of Cheat, but never managed to get there. So we decided to check another trail off our list last week. High Falls of Cheat Trail Distance: 7.6 miles (out and back) Elevation: 2927-3701 feet (1469&#8242; gain) ~10% grade on the mountain See that [&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-16607","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-4jR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607","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=16607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}