{"id":2960,"date":"2026-08-10T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:58:11","slug":"8-6-west-ridge-trail-rr-6-log-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"8\/6 West Ridge Trail: R&R 6′ Log Step"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Thursday 8\/6 was another humid hot day. I arrived Mt Cardigan State Park,by 0900, and I quit by 1200.<\/p>\n

Spent a while greeting hikers and passing out the free maps from State Parks. Fewer than half had any map at all, even AllTrails on a phone. The State map includes info about blaze colors and how there are only three; east side yellow, ridgetop white, west side orange. Pay attention, and you may descend to your car. People with map may guide people without one.<\/p>\n

I then hiked up a short ways to where a 6′ wood step from a blowdown in 2010 has rotted, sawed a new one from a blowdown of last winter, and replaced old with new,\u00a0 in about half an hour.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I scouted some changes needed to accommodate hiker traffic but still hold soil in place.<\/p>\n

Total was two hours work. The weather then became too humid and hot, even under trees. More electrolytes, then lunch, then migrate, AC to AC.<\/p>\n

– Craig Sanborn<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Before,\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tBefore, 6′ log sawn from blowdown staged on R by shovel. Older rotten 6′ log ready to be pried from its trench.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"After,\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tAfter, old log now barricade on roots at rightm.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday 8\/6 was another humid hot day. I arrived Mt Cardigan State Park,by 0900, and I quit by 1200. Spent a while greeting hikers and passing out the free maps from State Parks. Fewer than half had any map at all, even AllTrails on a phone. The State map includes info about blaze colors and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-trip-report"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}