good afternoon youtube so we're back up here on the middle road off of grizzly flat trail so i
stopped two weeks ago a ways back up there and came down a little farther definitely more down
trees there's kind of a little rock slide right there and then it gets really dense down here i
gotta try to find my way through here i just want to see how far down here you can get i got about
halfway down this side of the canyon part of the trail so it goes down i think it swings out here
and then at some point it cuts back and there's a couple of switchbacks that it takes down into
the bottom of the canyon the other thing i ran into i don't see it right here but farther up i
saw a fence post and then some barbed wire was running along the bottom side of the road here
if they were doing cattle grazing up here maybe figured i could go around the bottom side of some
of this down trees here and there are footprints along here i don't know if that shows up but
somebody else had the same idea so i'm not the only crazy person that comes out here
and hikes these old abandoned roads here but yeah let's see if i can get through here and it looks
like it might open up again okay yeah it cleared up a bit after that uh down tree or several downed
trees there and yeah there's another old fence post right there this one's down there were fence
posts along this road and yeah trees growing up in the middle of it now that's what i was starting to
fear was it seems like as you get lower into the canyons the undergrowth starts picking up
but this is like the uh ridge road that goes up to montebello ridge there's trees just growing
all over in it okay another big down tree had to go up around that one but then it opens up again
and looks like we're starting to make that turn that uh heads down to the switchback so that's
good okay this is seriously nice over here there's a really nice turn around there really nice and
open and then it gets real brushy here i think there's a lot of sun comes in here looks like
it's in a little draw here there's like a little canyon coming down here and it gets really wet
but i think we go this way but i'm about at my turnaround time and i think what i want to do
is look at my gps track and then see like where i am between the hill shade map and the topo map
because the hill shade map doesn't show the topography so it doesn't show this little
canyon here and i just want to make sure i'm in the right area and that might help
explain what i'm seeing on the hillshade map i thought they were switchbacks going down a hill
but it looks like they might be going into a little gully because they they looked funny
you know it didn't look like your typical switchbacks they were kind of big arcs and
that would be what this looks like just down here at the bottom of this canyon
there's a road that goes up the ridge up here all the way up to skyline boulevard highway 35
and then i think there's this canyon goes out and then branch d runs along the bottom there
and this road runs a ways down branch d and then there's a like a slide area it looks like it's
really steep hillside and then the old canyon road shows up on the hillshade layer i'll know how long
it takes to get here and then i can figure out how much farther i have to go and then figure
out how much time i need to allocate to do this because i would like to get down to the bottom
because i'm thinking down at the bottom of this hill if these roads all met at the same time
there should be some sort of a like a junction so yeah that's why i want to get down to the bottom
because that's probably the the best piece of evidence but yeah we can get down here
it gets brushy so this is going to be pretty slow going and there's a lot of big trees down here so
i'm still not sure what this road was for it's a puzzling road because it connects up at the
top end to grizzly flat road which according to the historical maps maybe was built in the 1950s
it showed up on the 1961 topo map but i'm not sure about the fact that it didn't show up on the 1940s
maps doesn't really mean anything because those maps are missing a lot of roads anyway
it's not on the 1930 map but the canyon road at least down the canyon shows up on the 1930 map
this road doesn't show up on any map the road that comes down there doesn't show up on any map were
these roads around at the same time because i don't know why you would build a road down here
to where there's another road unless you were trying to connect to that other road but it'd
be really weird that you would build a road clear down here just for the fun of it i mean you have
to have a reason this is a fairly long road it's a good half mile long probably a kilometer maybe but
yeah at least i got down here quite a bit quicker than two weeks ago and yeah the hiking pants are
really working well you can just bash through all the brush and you don't have to worry about
getting your cycling shorts snagged on things and scratch your legs or anything you just kind of
slide over trees and whatnot so yeah here's the hillshade map it came down from the center
right side came around that corner and i think where it drops down and then swings back up so
that would be nor so we're headed south here and we're going to make a turn and then head north and
i think we're right in that area and that looks like it's a second little gully there's a bigger
gully here that's why i got to figure out if i'm looking at the same thing and you can see this on
the left side up from the bottom you can see that other road then there's the road along the main
branch d goes up and to the right upper right corner there i'm in the area i just got to
figure out what the heck am i looking at here be really nice if i could figure out some way
to get a sir on this picture you know have this in a map with my location because right now i have to
kind of guess where i'm at it looks like there's also another road here every time you look at
these maps if you look down in the kind of the lower middle another loop of a road it looks
like there might be a road running up this little canyon here have to look at that yeah
yeah this is where the trail swings around here comes off of the ridge and there's a really nice
nice open area here and then that's where it starts heading into that little canyon
that's up ahead it's pretty overgrown in there yeah this road here looks just pristine
you know if you cleared off the branches and leaves you could drive on it
okay i gotta head back up the hill here i just thought i'd show you this corner really pretty
up here so yeah i hope you enjoyed that as always thanks for watching