{"id":176,"date":"2009-05-25T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2009-05-27T20:44:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T01:44:14","slug":"moore-cove-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Moore Cove Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day, we bravely hazarded the stretch of US 276 through Pisgah Forest between Looking Glass Falls (approximate number of cars parked here = 40) and Sliding Rock.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the location of the Moore Cove trail which is a 0.7 mile spur up to the falls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177\" title=\"Moore Cove Falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4923.jpg\" alt=\"Moore Cove Falls\" width=\"289\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4923.jpg 289w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4923-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moore Cove Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was after a day and half of rain so presumably the falls is often just a trickle.\u00a0\u00a0 The trail mostly follows the creek upstream crossing on wooden bridges several times.\u00a0\u00a0 There are other smaller falls in the vicinity as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178\" title=\"moore_cove\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moore_cove.jpg\" alt=\"Moore Cove\" width=\"390\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moore_cove.jpg 390w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moore_cove-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moore Cove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The &#8216;cove&#8217; portion of the falls is quite impressive on its own.\u00a0 There is substantial space inside the overhang.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-179\" title=\"david_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/david_falls.jpg\" alt=\"David at Moore Cove Falls\" width=\"324\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/david_falls.jpg 324w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/david_falls-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David at Moore Cove Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The location of the falls is well-shaded and the water was frigid but it was worth standing in nonetheless.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trout, of course, only stood in the falls long enough to get damp before finding some mud to lie in.\u00a0\u00a0 We had intended to change into more serious hiking footwear after this trail and visit something a little more obscure but the rain moved back in shortly after we got back to the car and hasn&#8217;t really stopped since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day, we bravely hazarded the stretch of US 276 through Pisgah Forest between Looking Glass Falls (approximate number of cars parked here = 40) and Sliding Rock.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the location of the Moore Cove trail which is a 0.7 mile spur up to the falls. This was after a day and half &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moore Cove 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":[4,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}