{"id":6410,"date":"2022-03-26T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T03:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2022-03-26T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T04:01:46","slug":"mailbox-peak-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6410","title":{"rendered":"Mailbox Peak Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You may have heard Mailbox Peak Trail<\/a> mentioned in hushed tones, the kind reserved for stories about some legendary storm or a bad accident. What inspires such reverence? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original trail proceeds more or less straight up a ridgeline to the summit, gaining a jaw dropping 3,800 feet in two and a half miles<\/a>. After a short flatter section, there is nary a switchback in sight as it climbs and crosses an open talus field. Until the Department of Natural Resources built a new, much gentler trail to the summit<\/a>, accidents and rescues of wayward hikers were a fairly regular occurrence. Most of the old trail remains, marked for much of its length by a string of white reflectors nailed to trees \u2013 an earlier step DNR undertook to keep the uninitiated from losing their way in the most confusing parts of the trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it might not be the most scenic of trails, it is definitely one of legends. It reminds me a lot of the Heartbreak Ridge trail<\/a> on Table Mountain. It is so steep as to be a near scramble up, or requires using the trees to descend without tumbling. Heartbreak climbs 1650ft in 1.2 miles – which is almost the same pitch, but only half as long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have heard Mailbox Peak Trail mentioned in hushed tones, the kind reserved for stories about some legendary storm or a bad accident. What inspires such reverence? The original trail proceeds more or less straight up a ridgeline to the summit, gaining a jaw dropping 3,800 feet in two and a half miles. After a short flatter section, there is nary a switchback in sight as it climbs and crosses an open talus field. Until the Department of Natural…<\/p>\n

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