{"id":165,"date":"2009-05-16T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-05-19T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T03:20:33","slug":"linville-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Linville Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took the scenic route back from Danville along the Blue Ridge Parkway.\u00a0\u00a0 Our intent had been to hike in the Linville area but it just kept raining and raining.\u00a0\u00a0 Finally we gave up and decided we were just going to get a little wet.\u00a0\u00a0 How bad can the half-mile hike to Linville Falls be anyway?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166\" title=\"linville_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/linville_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Linville Falls\" width=\"392\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/linville_falls.jpg 392w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/linville_falls-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linville Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The falls are quite impressive, especially after several hours of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 There is an upper view point (just below those very top cascades in this picture) but by then we were soaked in a persistent downpour so we figured we might as well keep going.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167\" title=\"melanie_lf\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/melanie_lf.jpg\" alt=\"Melanie at Linville Falls\" width=\"393\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/melanie_lf.jpg 393w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/melanie_lf-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie at Linville Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are Melanie and Trout at the overlook.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trout didn&#8217;t seem to consider this a proper sort of hike.\u00a0 He would&#8217;ve been more than happy to jump in a river and swim around but he&#8217;s not thrilled to be rained on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"rain\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rain.jpg\" alt=\"David at Linville Falls\" width=\"291\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rain.jpg 291w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rain-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David at Linville Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How much did it rain?\u00a0\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0\u00a0 Notice that you can&#8217;t see my toes in this picture and I&#8217;m standing on the trail.\u00a0\u00a0 There were pools of water six inches deep &#8211; but, we did get at least one small hike in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took the scenic route back from Danville along the Blue Ridge Parkway.\u00a0\u00a0 Our intent had been to hike in the Linville area but it just kept raining and raining.\u00a0\u00a0 Finally we gave up and decided we were just going to get a little wet.\u00a0\u00a0 How bad can the half-mile hike to Linville Falls be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linville Falls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}