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TBM Bull pass Loop

What to look for

Vistas

Fun and challenging trails

Ponderosa parkland

Granite tracks open to the west

Wildflowers everywhere in the spring months

Trailhead is along the KVR south from Arawana Road, above Lang’s Vinyard at steel gate. If you reach the toilet, you have gone too far! Pass the gate and follow the clear trail to Scary Rock, a sharp climb. At its top, a trail exits northeast. Take it for a more challenging hike or ride. Otherwise, continue south until you cross an old graded roadbed and discover a small marsh area where giant blue marsh grass predominates. Take the left fork. A trail will enter from left. It is the more challenging route from Scary Rock. Whichever way you got here, go north and follow the trail as it switches back and climbs. After a short plateau, you turn east and skirt around boulders on a well-constructed trail, ending up on the power line R-O-W. A hundred meters up, take one of the two trails left and pass through a short dense woods to the pipe line R-O-W.

Turn south and follow the R-O-W until you have nearly reached the lowest point, watching for a vague double-track to exit sharp right. Follow it to the power line R-O-W and head back north along the service track. The next 2 kilometers wind across granite fields following the service track. Soon grass vegetation will thicken as you reach a low summit. Two single-track trails depart right, (your up-trail) while your trail crosses a basin to arrive at the foot of a huge climb. Relax… a single-track exits left through Bull Pass, an area that gave the bicycle trail builders trouble-on-4-legs! At the base of the "Pass", take the right fork. (Left fork ends up the same place, but is for vigorous sorts on bicycles, and adventurous hikers, being rougher and steeper.) Take the next trail left (just past the tall stump) and descend sharply until arriving at a cross-trail. Turn west and follow this track to Scary Rock. Return to trailhead.