Trail Overview
Racepath is a dirt road heading up close to a couple of mountain peaks with beautiful scenery along the way, and the potential for a couple of dispersed leave-no-trace campsites. This is mostly a shelf dirt road overlooking a pretty valley on one side and a steep mountainside on the other. There are patches of gravel, but mostly dirt, with several decent-sized washouts leading to the rating, though high-clearance shouldn't be needed for any of them. There are a few sections, generally in switchbacks, where two full-size vehicles could pass, but otherwise mostly one vehicle width. There is a tendency to have trees or limbs down, and as of writing, there is a very large pine that has cleared just enough to get by with a full-width vehicle - but you will gain some pinestripes; if I might be so punny. Elsewhere on the trail, narrow areas of growth will lead to pinstripes, pine or not. There are a couple of mud holes, but nothing compared to the depth and amount of mud holes on the nearby Timpson Creek trail. There are a couple of spurs, but they are NOT on the Forest Service's Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) as legal travel routes.
Difficulty
As described in the main trail overview, the dirt road has many ruts, washouts, mud holes, narrow gaps to pass through, and is generally an intermediate trail.
