{"id":185,"date":"2016-04-06T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2016-09-06T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:39:44","slug":"bolt-mountain-running-in-southern-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/bolt-mountain-running-in-southern-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt Mountain &#8211; Running in Southern Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early on in my training for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mtashlandrun.com\/\">Mount Ashland Hill Climb<\/a>, I decided to run the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blm.gov\/or\/resources\/recreation\/site_info.php?siteid=406\">Bold Mountain trail<\/a>. This is a an out and back 6.5 mile run. Parking is either just inside the Fish Hatchery Park day use area (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.josephine.or.us\/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=132\">need a day or season pass<\/a>) or just outside on the side of the road away from neighbors driveways.<\/p>\n<p>The first 1 mile or so is flat and mellow, then it heads up hill for the next 2.5 miles. Mile 2 is the rocky section with a bunch of baby heads and looser large rocks. I would say this trail is not for the &#8220;unstable&#8221; runner, especially on the way back down.\u00a0My favorite section of this trail happens as you hit mile 2.3 or so. It turns around the west side of the mountain and into a forested \/ tree covered section of the trail. I&#8217;ve seen Eagles fly out of here in the morning as I&#8217;m slogging along. Once you reach the last turn before the summit you are welcomed again to a wide open view of the valley&#8217;s below on both sides of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blm.gov\/or\/resources\/recreation\/site_info.php?siteid=406\">Bolt Mountain<\/a>. By the way,\u00a0I ran with a handheld 20oz water bottle, but was out of water when I\u00a0got back to the car. There is no drinking water around that I know of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FYI,\u00a0This is a multi-use trail. I&#8217;ve seen and ridden bikes on it, though I have yet to see anyone on a horse.<\/p>\n<p>[sgpx gpx=&#8221;\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpx\/Hill_Yeah_Bolt_Mountain.gpx&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early on in my training for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mtashlandrun.com\/\">Mount Ashland Hill Climb<\/a>, I decided to run the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blm.gov\/or\/resources\/recreation\/site_info.php?siteid=406\">Bold Mountain trail<\/a>. This is a an out and back 6.5 mile run. Parking is either just inside the Fish Hatchery Park day use area (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.josephine.or.us\/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=132\">need a day or season pass<\/a>) or just outside on the side of the road away from neighbors driveways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/bolt-mountain-running-in-southern-oregon\/\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[50],"tags":[92,91,76],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160401_194505-01-e1473172454213.jpeg?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5OfD9-2Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}