okay yeah here we are up close to where the self trail comes down and you can see
right uh running south of me out from that blue dot there's a faint trace and i think
i stumbled on a faint little trail here and then ahead of me is a slightly more pronounced trail
i followed this one uh south a little bit getting into some heavy brush so i think i will stop here
but you can see it actually continues if you follow that line down it kind of curves around
and down into those three x's there yeah so i followed that faint trail up to where that
tree is down but you can see there's a faint track right down here and if we turn around it continues
that's where i came up and then supposedly right around here is where that more distinct trail is
and if you look up through these tree branches here that's the south trail coming down it's
really steep right there it's like 26 gradient coming down there and then it swings around the
corner goes down here but i think right through here is this other faint track and it runs down
to the road down there so there's a couple of people hiking down there that's the road
or the south trail okay right here i think i'm standing at the junction there's a faint trail
going just to the southeast of my blue dot just southeast of that there's sort of a diagonal
up to the north east trail and then there's a junction where it cuts back to the southeast
almost direct south and then you have the real heavy trail that's that's the actual south trail
yeah this is pretty much where i came up there's the uh piles of dirt
yeah right in here i think is that faint trace that i came down the hill here
you can see there's sort of a like a little road cut there and i think it comes down here and then
some place right down in here is where it cuts back and then a little farther down is the actual
south trail yeah let's just go down here see what it looks like yeah really faint on the ground like
i was saying if it's really faint on the hillshade map it's really faint on the ground so that's why
why you need to have a fairly accurate map because then you can go to that point on the ground and
then see what you see there because if you look here you wouldn't know there's anything that's
the south trail and yeah right in through here someplace there's an earlier version of it and i'm
standing on this old section of the south trail and it's really clear here just to the north of
the blue dot it's very faint and to the south it's very distinct okay i came down that way by that uh
down tree there you can't see anything and then it starts getting a little more distinct and then you
come down here and it's like an official road it hasn't been used in a long time but it's a nice
clear shot through there and i bet if we walk down here it'll drop down to the the new road
yeah there we go there's the uh the new road and then this guy just goes down here
yeah there we go look at that yep there it is there's the junction yeah this part on the map is
very distinct and i've been down here a couple of times i never saw this road up here i mean if you
didn't know it was here you wouldn't even think to look maybe this was the way to get up in here
so i didn't see any fence posts or barbed wire or pipe up there there was nothing no signs of
anything like that i might take a look for that faint trail that continues over there so if i
find that i will fire up the camera again well i'm right opposite of those piles of dirt where
i started and off to the north there seems to be a trail or faint trace so yeah this is that
area where the dirt's piled up i think this faint trace
might come down through here and then here's the south trail and then it heads someplace
like down there but yeah it looks like there's maybe a faint track down through there you can see
there's faint mark on the ground and then it goes right down there let's walk down here a few feet
something's been down here i mean the grass has been smooshed so yeah probably deer
or something or using this as a trail yeah yeah i think there is a trail here
you can see going off through that way really faint now you can see right through the grass
there just a real faint track so yeah maybe someday i'll come in and see how far that
goes because according to hill shade map it goes a ways down there i don't think it goes all the way
to the road because the road or the south trail kind of goes over here and then it drops down
really steep and this thing seems to go only part way down it's probably like a game trail
maybe following an old road or something but yeah i mean that's that's where you would go if
you're going down the ridge you stay on top of the ridge and just follow the crest of the ridge down
yeah that shows the power of having that hillshade map calibrated because then you can come to
a specific point and look on the ground and then once you look on the ground and
you know you're in the right spot you can then see like a faint track through there
so yeah that checks out too but anyway i gotta get back up to the south road there go grab my bike
and head down the hill 2 000 feet to drop and about 20 miles of riding to get home and about
two hours a day light so that'll just about do it but anyway yeah that's looking pretty good
i think that's a successful test i'll try to do a follow-up video on the way i've now figured out
to create the maps it's kind of a hack but it is workable i wish there was an easier way to do it
but at least i've got a way stay tuned for that video i'll try to put something together on the
map creation process if you want to give it a try yourself as always thanks for watching