{"id":2941,"date":"2026-07-21T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:31:16","slug":"7-20-west-rjdge-trail-stopping-a-waterbar-turning-into-a-herd-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"7\/20 West Rjdge Trail: Stopping a Waterbar Turning into a Herd Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>On Mount Cardigan&#8217;s West Ridge Trail, 0.3 miles uphill, hikers thought a drainage ditch was a fine path. After 2 hours with a shovel and 5&#8242; loop of 1&#8243; webbing, barricading was installed and the drainage ditch was restored. It may get their attention&#8230; \ud83e\udd28.<\/p>\n<p>Craig<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-20-2026-West-Rjdge-Trail-2a.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-20-2026-West-Rjdge-Trail-2a.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of trail (L), then barricade, then log holding down berm, then ditch for water.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" title=\"7-20-2026 West Rjdge Trail 2a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tClose up of trail (L), then barricade, then log holding down berm, then ditch for water.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-20-2026-West-Rjdge-Trail-3a.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-20-2026-West-Rjdge-Trail-3a.jpg\" alt=\"Restored ditch at its waterbar. Path is on left, second birch log defines outflow ditch off into woods, holds berm, is part of barricade.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" title=\"7-20-2026 West Rjdge Trail 3a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tRestored ditch at its waterbar. Path is on left, second birch log defines outflow ditch off into woods, holds berm, is part of barricade.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Mount Cardigan&#8217;s West Ridge Trail, 0.3 miles uphill, hikers thought a drainage ditch was a fine path. After 2 hours with a shovel and 5&#8242; loop of 1&#8243; webbing, barricading was installed and the drainage ditch was restored. It may get their attention&#8230; \ud83e\udd28. Craig Close up of trail (L), then barricade, then log&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-trip-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cardigan-SF-sign.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}