{"id":243,"date":"2006-06-18T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/archive\/2006\/06\/nelson-rocks-via-ferrata\/"},"modified":"2006-06-18T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T20:51:33","slug":"nelson-rocks-via-ferrata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/nelson-rocks-via-ferrata\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Rocks Via Ferrata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a title=\"via ferrata\" href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06155\/694999-37.stm\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a> has an interesting article on the via ferrata at <a title=\"Nelson Rocks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonrocks.org\/index.html\">Nelson Rocks<\/a> in West Virginia. I&#8217;ve never been on it myself, but I&#8217;ve observed many people on the via ferrata while climbing at Nelson Rocks (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonrocks.org\/climbing.html\">when it was open<\/a> of course).\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nItalian for &#8220;iron road,&#8221; a via ferrata is essentially a fixed rock-climbing route defined by cables attached to a cliff face every few feet to provide protection from serious falls. Climbers wearing a harness around their waists and legs attach themselves to the cable with two carabiners, or climbing clips, allowing them to slide along the route with a relative degree of safety. U-shaped rungs drilled into the stone ease the difficulty of the climbing on steep stretches of the route.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough the via ferrata concept has been around for more than a century in Europe, particularly in Italy&#8217;s Dolomite Alps, they are new to North America. Built in 2002, the Nelson Rocks via ferrata is only the second in the nation, the first being in Torrent Falls, Ky.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an interesting article on the via ferrata at Nelson Rocks in West Virginia. I&#8217;ve never been on it myself, but I&#8217;ve observed many people on the via ferrata while climbing at Nelson Rocks (when it was open of course). Italian for &#8220;iron road,&#8221; a via ferrata is essentially a fixed rock-climbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-3V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}