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.
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