{"id":6683,"date":"2024-08-06T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:00:56","slug":"paul-gillis-d25-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=6683","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gillis d25 Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sinks of Gandy, Randolph County, W.Va.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6684 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sinks-of-Gandy.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Gillis submission #1 for d25\" width=\"763\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sinks-of-Gandy.jpg 763w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sinks-of-Gandy-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sinks-of-Gandy-150x79.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sinks-of-Gandy-Closeup.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upstream Entrance of the Sinks of Gandy (wide view &amp; closeup).\u00a0 Gandy Creek flows right under a ridge extending out from Yokum Knob, emerging back into daylight about half a mile to the east.\u00a0 The cave has been well-known &amp; heavily visited since at least the 1830&#8217;s, although it was never operated as a tourist attraction.\u00a0 (You can read about it in Wikipedia.)\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of my favorite places, although I slipped on the wet rocks &amp; hurt myself rather badly while wading around to take these photos.\u00a0 At least my camera survived!<\/p>\n<p>TL-120, Provia 100F.\u00a0 55mm lenses would have been great for this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mouth of Thorny Creek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mouth-of-Thorny-Creek.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Gillis submission #3 for d25\" width=\"777\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mouth-of-Thorny-Creek.jpg 777w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mouth-of-Thorny-Creek-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mouth-of-Thorny-Creek-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mouth-of-Thorny-Creek-768x395.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thorny Creek emptying into the Greenbrier River, Pocahontas Co., W.Va.\u00a0 The old railroad bridge in the background carries the Greenbrier River Trail, popular for hiking &amp; cycling.\u00a0 This is about 4 miles upstream from Marlinton.<\/p>\n<p>TL-120, Provia 100F.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fallen Tree on the Bank of the Greenbrier River near Thorny Creek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bank-of-Greenbrier-River.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think I was on an exposed gravel shoal for this one, not actually wading.\u00a0 Those rocks sure get slippery!<\/p>\n<p>TL-120, Provia 100F.\u00a0 Probably f\/16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinks of Gandy, Randolph County, W.Va. Upstream Entrance of the Sinks of Gandy (wide view &amp; closeup).\u00a0 Gandy Creek flows right under a ridge extending out from Yokum Knob, emerging back into daylight about half a mile to the east.\u00a0 The cave has been well-known &amp; heavily visited since at least the 1830&#8217;s, although it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743,607],"tags":[213,653,124],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d25","category-dragon","tag-fuji-provia-100f","tag-paul-gillis","tag-tl120-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}