{"id":1059,"date":"2013-08-12T22:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:31","slug":"rating-trails-how-difficult-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Rating Trails \u2013 How difficult is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/trail_rating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1060\" alt=\"trail_rating\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/trail_rating-1024x616.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/trail_rating-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/trail_rating-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/trail_rating.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From time to time members ask me about how a trail should be rated. Rating mean<br \/>\ndifferent things depending on if you\u2019re hiking or riding a mountain bike. On horse back it<br \/>\nmeans something else. Also, the perception of how difficult a trail should be rated is<br \/>\ninfluenced by the experience of the one rating it. Time of year or weather conditions &#8211; a<br \/>\ntrails difficulty can change drastically. A level 3 or 4 trail can easily turn into something<br \/>\naltogether more technically with the addition of snow, rain, wind, high water&#8230; etc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/PDF\/SquawButteTrailRatingSystem.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time members ask me about how a trail should be rated. Rating mean different things depending on if you\u2019re hiking or riding a mountain bike. On horse back it means something else. Also, the perception of how difficult a trail should be rated is influenced by the experience of the one rating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-fun-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10745,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}