good afternoon YouTube we're going up the canyon trail today this is the top of the steep climb
before you come up to the grizzly flat Trail Junction and yeah I guess last weekend we had a
storm blow through there was a couple days where it was pretty cloudy up here and it looks like
they had to sowed a couple of trees here this is the canyon trail headed down to the junction
with the Table Mountain Trail and then this whole section here is what I'm thinking is this tectonic
block that has broken free I think all of this land over here used to be up here and it just
slid down the hill and this is one branch of the San Andreas fault right here and one interesting
thing to note is this is where USGS shows that water wheel Creek flows but there's never been
a creek that flows here you can see all the Rocks they're all angular you know angular sharp Bedrock
this is just broken up Rock from the surface there are no rounded River cobbles or anything here
and that's why this Trail gets very abrasive on the tires because all of this rock here is just
sharp angular Rock You know it's it's been rounded over by traffic but you can see here
you know this rock here is just sharp angular Rock now there's never been any water flowing
through here but one thing I've been looking for is rock outcrops and there's a big rock outcrop
right up there probably hard to see with the Shadow and the light but there's some exposed
rocks up there more than just a boulder and one thing I've been looking for is some way
to get up there so I've been kind of trying to scope out you know do you come up over there
it's kind of steep and over here there's a lot of brush and then there's a downed tree
and I was thinking you know what you could do is sort of go up this way into that open area
and make a Switchback just as I said that I was standing right here and it's like right there
there's a trail exactly where you would go up there it goes right through here right up there
and right up behind that tree there that's a trail right where I was thinking of going so I might try
heading up there yeah this is going in the right direction look at that there's just a nice little
footpath up there not very well traveled probably just a game Trail and my rocks are right up there
okay there's that little footpath comes up here and but uh there's the rocks think I
can get over there okay yeah this is pretty steep up here but I got up into this rock out crop here
and wow this is pretty rugged looking stuff I'm not sure what sort of layers I'm looking at here
I don't know if that's layers like that or there seems to be like a faces across this
way I mean it's really really broken up look at that not sure what kind of rock that is
another green got some green tint to it I don't know if this is like serpentinite it doesn't look
like it it's got a lot of different colors in it you know this could be part of the face there
was Rock here and it broke off and just slid down the face and ended up over there that rock there
could have been here and just slid right down there wow yeah this is I'm pretty sure this is
some Bedrock this isn't just a boulder and yeah I might try going along here there's a little Trail
that goes along the bottom Edge there yeah here's some more more of that outcrop up under
this uh looks like an oak tree that maybe blew down or fell down it's kind of right
across where I'm going but I don't know if those cracks are part of the layering
of the rock or if it's been folded and that's vertical cracks yeah it's got a very distinct
vertical uh cracked pattern if I can get under this tree here see what's over here if I can get
under there okay yeah I got on the other side there you can't really see much over here just
covered with that downed tree you can I think you can get up through here I probably want to
get some long pants on before I do that though not too comfortable bashing through that kind of
brush with shorts on but yeah this little Trail keeps going here there's a faint path looks like
it kind of goes up through here something that looks path like up up that way and then back
where I came up there was also a path that got up on top of these rocks probably just game Trails up
here but yeah neat yeah this is some really steep stuff here I've been trying to figure out how to
get up here and today I just picked a spot and there was a trail so it's like let's go up and
take a look so I thought I'd bring you along get a little video of this section and yeah so
if anybody knows what type of rock that is post up in the comment section below and if I can find
anything I'll put a comment down below with the uh information and as always thanks for watching