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BL5. Tripod Trail Loop:
At the trailhead at Arawana Forest Service Road (Kilometer 5.3) park on the north side
of the road facing downhill (west.) Across the road is an old logging road (called the Reservoir Route locally.)
Step over Arawana Creek. Proceed uphill. Along the way, you will note 3 other abandoned roads joining from the
south. Turn south on the third of these roads, marked by cairn, and follow it until it breaks out in a clearing. Inspection
will show that at the south of the clearing 2 trails exit. The lower one, on the right, is the Tripod Trail. Continue
past where the Sidewinder exits west to an awesome viewpoint, where Canadian survey pins are cemented into the granite.
A pile if sticks identifies the spot. Continue downhill.
Eventually, the Tripod intersects a traverse trail by Y-junction. Turn north on the Marmot Trail, about a 250-degree
turn. (If you miss the junction, you will cross an active forest road, the Reservoir Route, and must backtrack the half-kilometer.)
Follow Marmot until it merges with the Rusty Muffler, about a kilometer.
Follow Rusty to the fence, then take the trail south along the fence, leaving Rusty behind. Follow this winding
track up hill until you encounter a huge fallen tree with a bicycle bridge across it. Bear left up the draw, soon joining
a traverse trail, the Cow’s End, going north (left.) Cow’s End soon widens to a grassed logging track leading
to the trailhead.
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