{"id":302,"date":"2008-05-31T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/?p=302"},"modified":"2019-12-16T05:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:47:11","slug":"5_31_2008___milepost_3_trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/2008\/05\/5_31_2008___milepost_3_trail\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/31\/2008 &#8211; Milepost 3 Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div class=\"rw-trip-info\"><table style=\"border:none;margin:0;padding:0;\"><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Date<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">5\/31\/2008<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Location \/ Trail<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">Milepost 3 Trail<tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Weather<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">Partly Cloudy and in the upper 60s to low 70s<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Hiking Buddies<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">Bodie (my dog)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Start \/ End<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">11:30 AM &ndash; 3:30 PM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"rti-label\">Distance \/ Elev<\/td><td class=\"rti-value\">5 miles<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><div class=\"noPDF\" style=\"margin-left:30px; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:10px;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #2D6A2E; padding: 15px 30px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 30px; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.2), rgba(0,0,0,0.25)); display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/Hikes\/2008\/Milepost3Trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#128247; Pictures<\/a><a style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #2D6A2E; padding: 15px 30px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 30px; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,0.2), rgba(0,0,0,0.25)); display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/MapViewer.html?q=https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/hikemaps\/GPSTracks\/Milepost3Hike-20080531.gpx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#128506; Open Map Full Screen<\/a><\/div><div class=\"noPDF\"><div class=\"g4MapIframe\" href=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/MapAndElevationProfile.html?q=Milepost3Hike-20080531.gpx&#038;p=2008\/Milepost3Trail\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/MapAndElevationProfile.html?q=Milepost3Hike-20080531.gpx&#038;p=2008\/Milepost3Trail&v=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rw-pad20 g4MapImage\"><br\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"g4MapImage\" src=\"https:\/\/robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapImages\/g4map302.png\" class=\"g4MapImage\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"rwTRH\">Description of Hike:<\/div>\n<div class=\"rw-pad20\">I woke up this morning, the weather was cloudy, and the forecast was for probable rain. Since I wimped out the weekend before, I decided that I was going hiking no matter what. Then I was half way to Estacada, and it dawned on me that I forgot my rain gear! That didn&#8217;t deter me, however&#8230;.I decided I would make do with what I had and was determined to hike today. Anyway, I found the trailhead for the infamous &#8220;Milepost 3 Trail&#8221; after a bunch of looking. I was a little farther up the road than I should have been. Everywhere I looked, the hill went almost straight up! Anyway, after a bit of searching, I finally found the trail. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL TRAIL! I wonder why it got abandoned? It is a bit steep in places, but it has a lot of beautiful points on it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rw-pad20 rwphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/2008\/Milepost3Trail\/i-rFFkQVB\/0\/L\/P5310263-L.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhat looks to be genuine first growth old growth, some wonderful views from the talus slopes, and a very calming feel to it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rw-pad20 rwphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/rwphotos.smugmug.com\/photos\/2008\/Milepost3Trail\/i-CtML456\/0\/M\/P5310276-M.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nUnfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get a whole lot of pictures since the battery in my camera died part way through the trip. I missed getting pictures in my favorite part of the hike where it meanders through the beautiful old growth. There are a couple of pretty rough spots in the trail, but overall it was easy to hike. Most of the tread is easy to spot, however there is a lower section where it gets a little sketchy, and an upper section that is pretty nasty due to downed trees\/branches and a bunch of overgrowth. I hadn&#8217;t planned on spending a lot of time tending trail, so I just brought my clippers and no gloves, and I clipped until I got blisters on the way up. On the way down, I tried to throw branches off the trail. It could still use a lot of TLC, but the hike is most definitely worth it, and pretty easy to follow as long as you pay attention to where you are going. Since I didn&#8217;t see flagging or a rock cairn at the trailhead, I stacked several rocks at the trailhead hopefully to make it a little more apparent for people to find. My GPS differed from the posted coordinates by a little bit. I was up the road a few hundred feet too far. It is just before the 3 mile point on 4635, probably no more than a tenth of a mile. My GPS recorded about 5.1 miles roundtrip, but it also recorded a bunch of searching in the beginning, so I think it would have recorded 2.4 miles up to the intersection of Rimrock. I couldn&#8217;t find Rimrock due to the snow, (it was a couple feet deep on the top of the hill). Anyway, a very enjoyable day up in the hills&#8230;.. The trail is on Road #4635&#8230; The UTM coordinates at the trailhead are 10T 577761mE 4994293mN The trail starts out at 2742&#8242; and tops out at 4256&#8242; in 2.7ish miles where it T-bones the Rim Rock trail. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of Hike: I woke up this morning, the weather was cloudy, and the forecast was for probable rain. Since I wimped out the weekend before, I decided that I was going hiking no matter what. Then I was half way to Estacada, and it dawned on me that I forgot my rain gear! That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/2008\/05\/5_31_2008___milepost_3_trail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5\/31\/2008 &#8211; Milepost 3 Trail<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,65],"tags":[26,18,29,133,24],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tripreport","category-tripreport2008","category-vol2","tag-fourstars","tag-abandoned","tag-bodie","tag-mp3","tag-trailwork","wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robshikingdiary.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}