good afternoon youtube stevens canyon trail or canyon trail right there that's the part
before the slide and i came down here last fall and this is where i went up the old forest road
here's the little creek that runs down there but uh yeah today it's it's kind of windy and i didn't
want to go farther up i shot a couple of clips a little ways up here where the canyon opens up
okay youtube i came up here for a bike ride today we've got a storm coming in and a couple of hours
and the wind is a little bit higher than i'm comfortable with it it's not too bad right now but
there's a lot of creaking and groaning of branches and i've seen some small branches blow out of the
trees so i think i will turn around here i figured i would come back down here this is a little more
protected and maybe take a shot up here so this is the old road that i came down let's see that
would be the third time i went up here so i came down this way i was looking on the hill shade
map and i see traces of an old road going down into this canyon on the other side so i thought
maybe i would just walk up here a ways up the old road and keep an eye over the right bank and see
if i can see that old road peeling off there i wasn't looking for anything when i came down but
now i know there's something up there so i just want to see if i can find it here unfortunately
i didn't plan to come here so i didn't look at the map very closely so i'm just going off of uh what
i remember okay the trail levels out a little bit here it was really steep at the bottom but yeah
you can see it's really nice shape here for this old road i'm gonna keep going and looking down
off the right side and see if i see the signs of that faint road that drops down into the canyon
as i recall this was like the first major bunch of downed trees i had to cross coming down
and it's really steep section here i just wanted to maybe get up to this point and i think i saw
something down there around the corner because the the little road or trail was right where
this road leaves this canyon it makes a like a 90 degree turn down there so i wanted to come up
this far and i didn't see anything else so yeah i think i'll go back down and we'll check out that
little faint trail that goes off to the left yeah so i checked here the slope right here
this is a 30 degree slope so that's better than 50 percent gradient going down here is a steep
okay i think this might be that faint road or trail either this or down below there's some
downed trees here and there was what looked like a little path coming in below those three trees
right there just below these three trees i think this might be that little trail that shows up on
the hillshade map looks like it's pretty faint but this is the only thing i saw coming up so let's go
down and take a look okay it came up that way this is looking more and more like a trail of some sort
you can see there and it's got a bank excavated and it keeps going this way i'll see what's
around the corner if it continues or not so yeah really overgrown for a stretch there but then
you get through that and i think it opens up again so let's keep on
going see what what we see up there okay came up that section it was fairly clear
but then it looks like the road bed is pretty much washed away there
because right down here is this little creek channel wow look at this thing down here
really impressive canyon and it looks like the road maybe continues up to about there and then
it's gone and then according to the hillshade map there was a something over here too on this side
there was a faint trail but what i need to do is i'll look at the track that i have right here and
the waypoint and then i'll decide if i'm at the right spot because it could be that maybe it went
farther up and crossed yeah you wouldn't be able to get down i mean that is just straight down the
hill you can just barely dig into the remains of the old road and not slide down yeah wow this is
pretty neat down here all these big boulders and so this is another spot i need to keep in mind
if there's a really good wet year and there's probably a torrent of water coming down this thing
and waterfalls yeah i'm not sure why they built this road down here and yeah i can hear the
wind down there they're sounding like a freight train running down the canyon i heard a big crack
and a huge branch or something came down down that way just before i got onto this trail
the trail going out of here might be blocked i don't know i think this is my turn around spot
really pretty up here though wow right before i hit all this brush there was a faint trail going
down so maybe take a look at that when i head out here yeah i got some nice fungus growing on this
dead branch here across the road and yeah this is where it gets really overgrown so i just made
it past the really bad part here and i thought this looked a bit like a trail down here but i
i imagine people have been down here and kind of used this little path to get around that downed
tree because it doesn't look like it goes down but yeah this was definitely dug out here you
can see how this hill side was uh cut into the slope and then it's got the flat here and then
drops down again but anyway i thought i'd show you this little road and hopefully it's the one
that shows up on the map because otherwise i've got to come back up here and find the other one
but yeah i hear the wind picking up you can probably hear it in the background
so i think i will shut this off and head home so as always thanks for watching