good afternoon YouTube we're up here at the grizzly flat Trail Junction on the canyon
trail and yeah today I was planning on heading up Grizzly flat but it was quite a bit warmer
than uh it has been by the time I got up here I was feeling the heat it was uh about a hundred
Fahrenheit coming past the Stevens Creek Dam and Reservoir and it's still a mid to Upper 80s up
here so instead I might head up this way just a little bit there's a really steep climb and
a sharp corner up here and just beyond that the hill shade map shows a faint little road going
down to the left off of the main road so I might see if I can get up that far and just take a look
at it see if I can find it I don't have the hill shade map with me up here since I didn't plan on
coming up this way but I figure I can at least see if I see the road I think I know where it is
okay this is a little farther up the canyon trail there's a little uh bypass up here behind me
there's one of these Sag Pond areas that on really wet years there's a pretty good sized puddle over
there and so the trail comes out here around the outside so you don't have to go through the mud
according to the hill shade map someplace down in this grassy area probably down near
the bottom is that old road and it goes up the canyon kind of staying down low
it's going down towards the creek I think it's gold mine Creek that comes down and
the trail at Old Road goes up to about where Gold Mine Creek comes in and then it turns
up and it looks like there's an old structure maybe a foundation up there this is where that
would be so it's probably down there someplace but that would definitely be one to do in the
winter wait till the grass dies down and so you can see the ground because otherwise you could
be walking on a trail and not even notice it because this grass is like waist high
I'll go back down the canyon trail and I think I see where the road starts okay yeah that's
at uh really steep Corner around the around the corner there that's where that turnout
is and I think right in here is probably where that old road takes off you can see down here
there's a kind of a leveled bench and as you walk up the modern road you can see that bench
for a ways until it disappears but yeah this is definitely a winter or early spring trip there's
a lot of brush down there so you gotta wait till all that stuff dies back and then I need a a good
Hill shade map of this area so I can follow that because through that Meadow it looks pretty faint
like I can't see the road but I think right in here is where it starts they might have even
tried to block it off here you know dumped a bunch of trees down there but you can see right in here
there's the road bed and then they've got a bunch of uh downed trees they pushed over the edge there
this one's pretty faint I think it's doable okay I'll have to keep an eye on this one wait till
the the brush clears out this winter and get the grass to die down and then I need to make myself
a good Hill shade map of this area but yeah anyway that's where this road is and that looks like it
goes to an interesting looking I don't know if it's a foundation or a building of some sort so
we'll have to go up and take a look let's take a look at this area here on Google Maps so this is
kind of an interesting area here there's a cash up here that I finally found let's see and this
is where what's called Goldmine Creek comes down here and I think it comes over here and
into Stevens Creek and this is that whole grassy area that I was looking down on this is where that
little bypass Trail comes out here and you can look down in this area anyway right here
that point is the 1838 earthquake epicenter and that's one reason I'm kind of interested in this
Old Road along here because that epicenter is just up the side of the Canyon from where that
Old Road runs down here yeah so if we zoom in a bit you can start to see little traces of that
Rose this image was taken when the grass was down so probably I don't know late fall early spring
because you can see a lot of game Trails on the ground there and I believe this is a trace of
the old road down here and then also right along here but if you switch over to the 3D mode Let's
see if we can spin around so we're actually looking down the canyon here here's the canyon
Trail and here's where that sharp corner is and I believe this is where the old road comes down here
there's kind of a clearing through the trees but I think it comes down through here and then down
along the bottom of that Meadow and then along here and then it turns up here this is where Gold
Mine Creek is and then someplace around here on the hill shade map there's some sort of feature
I don't know if it's just a rock formation maybe that so that would be interesting just to see what
that thing is but the other reason I'd like to get down there is here's the creek down here and I'd
like to see if there's a way to get from this road down to the creek you've got that 1838 epicenter
right up here on top of this Ridge so that would be one interesting thing is to be able to
see if there's a path up this side of the canyon to get to that point the other reason I want to
get down here is I would like to hike this section of the canyon here if you look here
I've done all of this section of the canyon here I've hiked from way before the map here all the
way up to here and the one section I haven't done yet is up here I'm trying to find a way
to get into the creek down here it's very rough by the grizzly flat Trail Crossing but if I can
get in there it would be neat to hike up this stretch of the creek Channel because from the
trail up here you can't see down to the creek it's way down below the trail if we zoom in a
bit I'm not sure if this is just an artifact of the map but there looks like a really steep cut
where the creek goes through but that looks really spectacular but anyway that would be neat if I
could come up here and then get out of the canyon at this point instead of having to hike all the
way back down so yeah anyway there's some really neat stuff in this area and you can see how this
terrain here is very rugged and then you can see here there's a a real Ridge that formed and then
the the fault pretty much runs up the creek here and then I think it also runs up where the canyon
trail is because this is where they did the Dig probably about eight years ago they did a geologic
dig here to look at paleo seismology and whatnot the reason they did that was that one branch of
the fault runs through this area and they could they could drive down the canyon trail with a
backhoe and and do their dig so anyway I thought I'd show you that yeah we'll jump back to the live
video stay tuned we'll probably be going up there at some point and as always thanks for watching