{"id":2988,"date":"2026-08-22T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:12:11","slug":"8-20-26-west-ridge-trail-rock-steps-in-gully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2988","title":{"rendered":"8\/20\/26: West Ridge Trail, Rock Steps in Gully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>Back on the heavily impacted West Ridge Trail, 0.3 miles up the trail, there was a longish herd path beside four rock steps in a gully, and several stones the glacier did inconsiderately leave at angles awkward to walk.\u00a0 Four volunteer Cardigan Highlanders were enough people to make this site more attractive to walk by building better and more rock steps, two re-set plus two new. Then we planted 6 jagged rocks and barricade in the herd path, to see if the tourists take the path of least resistance,\u00a0 i.e. the steps.<\/p>\n<p>Several crews we know are having to do similar fixes\u00a0to the same problem: herds of hikers who don&#8217;t walk single file to keep impact on the present trails. The fixes are costly in volunteer hours.\u00a0 How to manage this impact is still uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, we had a good crew who did quite well, as the photos show.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to them!<\/p>\n<p>All the Best,<\/p>\nCraig Sanborn,\u00a0 CHVTC<br \/>\nTrailmaster\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-1.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-1.jpg\" alt=\"New step in place at top of gully.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" title=\"8-20-26 West Rdg Tr 1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tNew step in place at top of gully.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-3.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-3.jpg\" alt=\"Ben rests shovel on new step,  Jim &amp; Gus stand at left, Hank inspects steps from below for rise &amp; run per guidelines.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" title=\"8-20-26 West Rdg Tr 3\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tBen rests shovel on new step,  Jim &amp; Gus stand at left, Hank inspects steps from below for rise &amp; run per guidelines.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-2.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-2.jpg\" alt=\"View from top of steps.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" title=\"8-20-26 West Rdg Tr 2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tView from top of steps.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the heavily impacted West Ridge Trail, 0.3 miles up the trail, there was a longish herd path beside four rock steps in a gully, and several stones the glacier did inconsiderately leave at angles awkward to walk.\u00a0 Four volunteer Cardigan Highlanders were enough people to make this site more attractive to walk by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2987,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8-20-26-West-Rdg-Tr-1a.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}