{"id":15503,"date":"2016-03-28T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2023-07-09T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:52:34","slug":"muir-creek-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2016\/03\/muir-creek-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Muir Creek in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15504\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/16M_8541-RAW-muir-creek-oregon-winter-snow.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15504\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15504\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/16M_8541-RAW-muir-creek-oregon-winter-snow.jpg\" alt=\"muir creek oregon winter snow\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muir Creek (near Muir Creek Falls) from the east<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2016\/03\/snowy-sunset\/>I mentioned<\/a> a couple days ago, my first goal on my snowshoeing adventure last week was to see Muir Creek Falls in winter. There isn&#8217;t a single photo of the place in winter on the internet. The normal trail to the falls is 3.9 miles each way. I wasn&#8217;t up for 8 miles in snowshoes, especially since I had a late start and wouldn&#8217;t be arriving until late afternoon. So, in looking at a map, I decided to try to get there from the Claude Lewis Trailhead \/ Sno-Park parking lot. The two places appeared to be only about 1,000 feet from each other on Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>The parking lot was easy to find and well plowed. I was the only person there. There were no trails or prints of any kind so I had to forge my own path, something snowshoes are pretty good for. The snow varied from a few feet to over 10-feet deep in places. The snow was very soft, and I sank 6-12 inches with every step, even with snowshoes. Although the going was mostly flat, after 1,000 feet or so I came to the scene shown in today&#8217;s photo. Muir Creek was right in front of me, but it was a hundred + feet down with no trails or feasible way to make the descent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned a couple days ago, my first goal on my snowshoeing adventure last week was to see Muir Creek Falls in winter. There isn&#8217;t a single photo of the place in winter on the internet. The normal trail to the falls is 3.9 miles each way. I wasn&#8217;t up for 8 miles in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,87,10],"tags":[6,457,231,326,7,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29922,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/29922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}