{"id":18272,"date":"2020-03-27T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=18272"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:58:14","slug":"rock-castle-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=18272","title":{"rendered":"Rock Castle Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a get-out-of-the-house day. The hike was to Rock Castle Gorge near Floyd, Virginia. The trail is near the Blue Ridge Parkway and is on land owned by the National Park Service. The trail follows a fast-flowing creek through the gorge. Many years ago, the area was sparsely settled. Now the pastures are mostly overgrown, but one abandoned house remains, with a well-preserved barn and outhouse. There are trout in the stream. We saw at least three fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>These are iPhone photos. I didn&#8217;t want to carry the heavy Nikon camera on a six-mile half-uphill hike.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-4.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-5-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-5-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1034\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-6.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-6-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-6-768x662.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/C-creek-8-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a get-out-of-the-house day. The hike was to Rock Castle Gorge near Floyd, Virginia. The trail is near the Blue Ridge Parkway and is on land owned by the National Park Service. The trail follows a fast-flowing creek through the gorge. Many years ago, the area was sparsely settled. Now the pastures are mostly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=18272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rock Castle Gorge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18283,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions\/18283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}