The Weather Sucks... Let's Go Hiking!
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canyonwalkerWest Virginia Travelog #7
Beckley, WV - Sun, 17 Sep 2023. 11am
Today's our first full day in West Virginia. We did a fair bit yesterday: a waterfall hike, a ridge hike, and generally a long day with lots of driving— coming off a red-eye flight, at that! Today's our first full day in West Virginia... and we spent the first part of it sleeping in and lazing around the room. 😨 I can't really fault us, though, as (a) yesterday really was a long day, so sleeping in a bit today was justified; and (b) the weather sucks today. It's gray and gloomy and raining off an on. Who wants to go hiking in that?
We want to go hiking, that's who! 😅 Well, we'd rather go hiking in nice weather, but clouds and a bit of rain aren't enough to ruin this day of our vacation. Most of the outdoors things we want to do are waterfalls, anyway, and as I've remarked before many waterfalls look better in a misty rain than in bright sunlight. Plus, today rain means that the waterfalls will be flowing. Nothing's worse than hiking out to a waterfall, when the weather's great, and finding it's not flowing.
We've picked out two falls for today, Cathedral Falls and Hill Creek Falls. We've packed car-bags with full changes of clothes so if worst comes to worst on the trail, we'll be able to change into comfortable clothes for the rest of the drive. Now it's time to make tracks!
Update: Hikes we did on this gloomy Sunday:
Beckley, WV - Sun, 17 Sep 2023. 11am
Today's our first full day in West Virginia. We did a fair bit yesterday: a waterfall hike, a ridge hike, and generally a long day with lots of driving— coming off a red-eye flight, at that! Today's our first full day in West Virginia... and we spent the first part of it sleeping in and lazing around the room. 😨 I can't really fault us, though, as (a) yesterday really was a long day, so sleeping in a bit today was justified; and (b) the weather sucks today. It's gray and gloomy and raining off an on. Who wants to go hiking in that?
We want to go hiking, that's who! 😅 Well, we'd rather go hiking in nice weather, but clouds and a bit of rain aren't enough to ruin this day of our vacation. Most of the outdoors things we want to do are waterfalls, anyway, and as I've remarked before many waterfalls look better in a misty rain than in bright sunlight. Plus, today rain means that the waterfalls will be flowing. Nothing's worse than hiking out to a waterfall, when the weather's great, and finding it's not flowing.
We've picked out two falls for today, Cathedral Falls and Hill Creek Falls. We've packed car-bags with full changes of clothes so if worst comes to worst on the trail, we'll be able to change into comfortable clothes for the rest of the drive. Now it's time to make tracks!
Update: Hikes we did on this gloomy Sunday:
