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) and 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 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, but see also note 1, below) leads to the Sidewinder trail where it merges into the Tripod. (continuation south at this trail intersection takes you to an awesome viewpoint, where Canadian survey pins are cemented into the granite. A pile if sticks identifies the spot. Two-way time for this side-trip is about 40 minutes along a fairly level and easy path.) If not going to the viewpoint, turn west on the trail (the Sidewinder) that heads down hill. Follow this track past two bicycle boardwalks. (At the lower of these boardwalks, if you wish to shorten your hike/bike, you may turn north, and in 50 or so meters, join a logging road that will take you back to the Reservoir Route.)

Continue on the trail past some tire piles (a route marker) and on down, mainly heading west. Soon you will reach a wide trail rising sharply up-hill to intersect the track you are on. A quick look down will show a huge log below, with rough bridging to allow bicycle passage over the log. Pass on, noting that the trail now is headed more northerly, and is quite level. (Local bikers call this Cow’s End.) There is a divide in the track, but these come back together shortly. Trail right has better definition. Before long, the track widens and joins a logging road. The track loses definition in several places, but the track eventually returns to terminate where Arawana Creek crosses Reservoir Route, the trailhead!

(Note 1: If time permits, it is worthwhile following the more easterly (left) track, which dead-ends at an amazing south-facing clearing surrounded by old-growth forest. Wander around Juniper Lookout, but remember your trail out, marked in 2007 by an Inukshuk.)