16EV101

The north end of this 1.9-mile-long trail starts out climbing up from the Forest Service road, up a steeper slope with loose rock, narrowing up between lots of scrub oak and manzanitas. There are several downed logs sticking into the trail that you have to skirt around. It curves gently through the trees, but on a semi-steep grade, side-hilling up the mountainside on a shelfy path with very mild exposure, lined with tall pines and oaks. There’s a long, steep hill climb that has been reinforced to prevent erosion. It pops out of the trees onto a sun-exposed hillside with sharp, volcanic-like loose rock and jagged embedded rock slabs. It goes past a few scenic rock walls as well, before ending on FS 3N35 near the intersection with the 16EV236 singletrack. This trail is seasonally closed 12/16 – 4/14 to motorized use.