good afternoon youtube doing another video from the trail here we had a big rainstorm at the end
of october and the creeks are now running again this is stevens creek right here canyon trail
goes up that way and also down that way and then around this way is the what's called
lower table mountain trail comes down to here and it's about a mile and a quarter up to the
top of uh table mountain which is up here two kilometers and it's about 600 feet or 200 meters
up there so about two months ago i was right here again and it was really hot as the first weekend
in september and it had cooled off coming up the paved part of the climb but when i got up to this
part of the trail i looked at my thermometer and it started going back up again so i was thinking
maybe i would go up this way because up here like i said it's about 600 feet of climbing
if you go up the canyon trail here i was thinking of going up to the ridge on grizzly flat
there it's about two miles of riding and about a thousand feet so you go up a lot higher
so i decided to come this way i got right here and i usually take a break and get a drink
when i got here my bag was all wet my big water bottle spare water bottle that carry in the back
i must not have got the lid on tight and all the water had leaked out and all i had left was about
a quarter bottle of ice and i had just emptied one of my frame bottles so i had literally one bottle
of water left so when i got here it's like i'm not going up this way because the last time i went up
there when it was hot by the time i got home i had a couple of sips of water left out of my
spare bottle plus the two bottles i carry on the bike and i decided that was not a wise thing to do
so i'm like sitting here thinking well i should just turn around and go home but then i've been
wanting to see what was up that way up the creek because if you go up that way about a half a mile
you come to the grizzly flat trail crossing and then likewise if you go down this way
about a half a mile you come to the main stephens canyon trail crossing and also the end of the old
stevens canyon road at least the end of where it exists today but i have a map from 1895
that shows there was a road that used to come right up here let's go look over here
like right there i believe that's part of the old road bed it goes around the corner there
and it supposedly went all the way down to where the modern road ends and then likewise
that road continues up here i think this is the old road cut right there and it goes all
the way up and past the grizzly flat trail so like i said i've been wanting to do this hike
here i'd never thought out the logistics of doing that like right now you would not want to go up
this creek you would have very wet cold feet but two months ago this thing was bone dry and just a
spur of the moment thing i grabbed my phone and i grabbed my bike gps and i started hiking that way
and it took about 45 minutes to get up there i'll do a separate video show you the route i took and
some pictures and kind of walk you through the walk there and then a couple weeks later
i went down from the bottom and i hiked up to here it's again about a half mile a little under a
kilometer and did that the first time when i went up this way i really didn't think it was literally
a spur of the moment decision i just kind of stashed my bike up there and started going and i
got up towards the end and it was like 95 degrees fahrenheit and i was getting a bit thirsty because
i forgot to bring a water bottle with me and it's like this isn't very smart so luckily it's only
about 10 minutes back on the maintained trail so i got back here and drank half my remaining water
i think when i got back i was pretty thirsty so after that when i like did this bottom trail here
i took a bottle of water with me but the thing is you're hiking up loose rocks in the creek bed
you've got a bottle of water in one hand you've got your phone in your other hand and every once
in a while you need to grab onto a log and get up over it or push some branches out of the way and
what do you do with your stuff in your hands so i was thinking i needed something and i was thinking
something like a fanny pack would be just the thing to have one with a a water bottle pocket
and then a pocket to throw some stuff into like i have my phone to fit in there
i've got my let's see here's my geocaching tool kit i've got you know just some stuff that you
need for geocaching in there maybe throw a bar in so i picked up this nice little fanny pack
off of amazon i'll put a link in the video description i just wanted something really
simple there's a water bottle pocket and then it's got a pocket on the outside and then a zipper
actually has two zipper pockets so you can put stuff inside if you don't want to lose it and then
just a waist strap and the nice thing is it just fits right on the back of the bike so today i just
figured i would strap this on the bike and see how it works i didn't plan to do any hiking today but
just see if it's a viable option and that seems to work fine i don't even notice it's there if i have
to get into my saddle bag i'm gonna have to take that off like to get my bike light out which i'll
probably need to take out today since it's the first day back on standard time and it'll probably
be dark when i'm riding home i'm thinking this fanny pack i can just take it on the bike and i'll
just have it with me like i have another fanny pack but it's like bulky you know it's got like
liners in it it doesn't fold up flat so i didn't want to use that because it would be too bulky
i like this one because it just folds flat and there's really no structure to it there's a time
about the first week in september to about the end of october that you can do these sorts of hikes
when the creek pretty much dries up and then also before the first rains because once it
starts raining i've read that the wood ticks start coming out but a month ago there were no ticks
so that's one of those things you got to watch for so anyway thanks for watching