yeah up there that big tree right in the center that's the grizzly flat road and my bike up there
and i tried coming down where the hill shade map shows something and i don't
think it's a road down here there is some texture here you can see around the trees
like on the uphill side of all the trees there's flat areas like you can see right down in here
so this might be a way to get down it's not the uh road or trail i was thinking it might be
but wow this this stuff is steep though i mean this dirt here the soil is very soft you take a
step and then you slide about a foot down problem is getting back up is going to be really tiring
but yeah i've checked on the other side of this down tree and it it gets really brushy in here
because that's where this side stream comes down but i think maybe my original plan of sort of
going down the nose of this ridge here so that might be a plan at least like i say there's some
slightly level areas here where you can stop on your way down and stop on your way up there the
camera is about level and you can see how steep it is really steep there almost vertical in spots
in fact right off the road there it's it's like a sheer drop so you have to find a place to get
down off the road either up here or up over there you can't just go straight up there's no way but
yeah this might be a possibility i probably don't have enough time today to go down there i just
kind of wanted to check it out if it was a really nice clear road i might have gone
down there but it looks like it's going to be some bushwhacking to get down there i think
that's where that uh hill shade map it does show i guess that there's some undulations here and
maybe they were just close enough together that it looked kind of road-like i guess that's better
than nothing because you can see over here yeah there the camera is pretty much level you can see
over there it's just a sheer drop so yeah any any place from uh here over looks like it's passable
if you go past that point it's just straight down the hill and yeah you could probably get down but
i don't think you could get back up yeah you can see right there how soft the dirt is there's my
footprint coming down you step there and you slide almost a foot downhill before you stop sliding and
wow coming up this thing is tough you can do about five or ten steps and you got to stop
and catch your breath i have to wait for the right conditions this one might need to wait till fall
the problem is it's starting to warm up now it's only in the 50s here today but it was in the mid
70s down in the valley and the problem is when it starts warming up i can't wear my
long tights up here it's too hot and i'm not coming down here with shorts because that is all
nasty stuff starting to come up all poison oak and stickers and whatnot you'll be in agony
before you get very far down here so we might be coming to the end of the
off trail exploring for this spring season first day of spring and it might be a couple more weeks
that it's cool enough to come up here but once it starts warming up because the other thing is the
wood ticks start coming out and the other creepy crawlies they say once it starts getting up in the
60 to 70 degree range all sorts of creepy crawlies wake up and start climbing around down here and
i don't want to meet any of those guys down here yes i had to come back up and take a second look
at this hill and i also looked at the hill shade map a little more and it's probably hard to see
you can see these trees right down here that's basically the edge of the slide so you can see
like down below those trees it's kind of scooped out and that's that slide scar
and then if you come on the left side of those trees that's basically virgin ground that hasn't
slid i think i came up this way but i didn't really see it when i hiked up here but there's
like a little game trail right down here but now looking down here you can see that little game
trail and then there's a like a clearing here and up on top of those trees on the uphill side
and then there's that double tree right there swing around there and there's another flat area
so i think this is probably what i was seeing on the hillshade map a zigzaggy set of ledges
going down here problem is when i went down the other week i think i came down from this
side and if you're in the middle of that you can't really see it i could see that flat area but i
couldn't see the whole hill here so with this i'm not sure if i will go down this way but i'm
also trying to scope out the road down below here i've looked at the tree that i stopped at and i
think i can get over that down tree it looks like it's pretty solid and then try to follow the road
up if possible the idea here is that if i come up that road and it's very difficult to get up there
this would be my exit route is to come up this way so i would just come up till i hit this
stream coming down from the side and then just take this ridge up that's the other option is go
down this way and then hike back because from here i could hike upstream or downstream but there's
a pretty steep hill here you got to go down and you're going to lose probably 300 vertical feet
going down and then you're going to have to climb that back up but yeah i thought i'd just show you
that at least i'm i'm starting to see what's on the hill shade map see the features here
and you can see how that slide came right in here you can see like right along here
that's the top of that slide scar and it went all the way down from here this soil here
has never slid or hasn't slid in recent history anyway i know that helps me understand this a
little better and hopefully that clears things up a bit as to what i've been looking for here so i
think i'll sign off here because i'll probably be huffing and puffing getting back up there
and then i'm just going to head straight home from there because it's starting to get late
20 minutes till 6 right now so i got to get up to the road and get my stuff packed up
and then i got about an hour and 20 minutes to get home and it'll be just before sundown
so i think i'll sign off here as always thanks for watching