{"id":421,"date":"2017-12-29T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2017-12-29T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:13:21","slug":"sterling-mine-ditch-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/sterling-mine-ditch-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Mine Ditch Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A little backstory: &#8220;In 1877 miners built the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/or\/resources\/recreation\/files\/brochures\/SMDT_Map.pdf\">Sterling Mine Ditch\u00a0<\/a>to redirect later from the upper reaches of the Little Applegate River to the Sterling Creek Mine. The ditch followed the contours of the rugged slopes of Anderson Butte and lost only 200 feet in elevation over its 26.5 mile length. Using hand tools, up to 400 workers, most of them probably Chinese, completed the ditch in just 6 months, at a cost of $70,000.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The views on trail are spectacular and you do feel like you are &#8220;out there&#8221; a ways. Besides a couple private property &#8220;go arounds&#8221; the trail is fairly mellow. There is a HUGE Madrone tree and a really fun section right at the end before the Little Applegate trailhead. I had to pleasure of riding it with a good friend who is just over 70 years young! What an inspiration. We made a loop out of it hitting the road on the way home. Big up to the trail workers!<\/p>\n<p>In a bit of a tangent&#8230; really looking forward to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applegatetrails.org\/\">ART trail completion<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[sgpx gpx=&#8221;\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpx\/Sterling_ditch_to_road_loop.gpx&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A little backstory: &#8220;In 1877 miners built the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/or\/resources\/recreation\/files\/brochures\/SMDT_Map.pdf\">Sterling Mine Ditch\u00a0<\/a>to redirect later from the upper reaches of the Little Applegate River to the Sterling Creek Mine. The ditch followed the contours of the rugged slopes of Anderson Butte and lost only 200 feet in elevation over its 26.5 mile length. Using hand tools, up to 400 workers, most of them probably Chinese, completed the ditch in just 6 months, at a cost of $70,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/sterling-mine-ditch-trail\/\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[28],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171118_105826.jpg?fit=1207%2C905&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5OfD9-6N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}