{"id":206,"date":"2021-11-08T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2021-11-28T23:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:36:59","slug":"virgin-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/virgin-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/599-virgin-river-r9739.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" width=\"610\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/599-virgin-river-r9739.jpg 599w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/599-virgin-river-r9739-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Virgin River with Mormon Mesa in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were two equally onerous obstacles along the <em><a href=\"\/historic-roads\/old-mormon-wagon-road.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salt Lake Wagon Road<\/a><\/em> that early-on pioneers had to overcome; on the east end of the trail, there was Virgin Hill at <em><a href=\"\/mormon-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mormon Mesa<\/a><\/em> and the <em><a href=\"\/virgin-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virgin River<\/a><\/em>. To the west, the challenge was the <em><a href=\"\/cajon-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cajon Pass<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/600-mormon-mesa-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/600-mormon-mesa-map.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/600-mormon-mesa-map-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Virgin Hill was a 360-foot change in elevation in only .6 miles (1 foot rise every 9 feet). Teams would have to be doubled up to pull loads over the rocky vertical sections of the steep trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/804-overton-virgin-river-mormon-mesa-r3730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" width=\"587\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/804-overton-virgin-river-mormon-mesa-r3730.jpg 804w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/804-overton-virgin-river-mormon-mesa-r3730-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/804-overton-virgin-river-mormon-mesa-r3730-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 85vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em> Mormon Mesa &#8211; Overton, Nevada<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two equally onerous obstacles along the Salt Lake Wagon Road that early-on pioneers had to overcome; on the east end of the trail, there was Virgin Hill at Mormon Mesa and the Virgin River. To the west, the challenge was the Cajon Pass. Virgin Hill was a 360-foot change in elevation in only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/virgin-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin Hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,53],"tags":[60,65,59,62,55,61,63,56,58,54,57],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-maps","tag-arizona","tag-lake-mead","tag-littlefield","tag-mesquite","tag-muddy-river","tag-nevada","tag-overton","tag-salt-lake-road","tag-virgin-hill","tag-virgin-river","tag-wagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}