Patterson

From the south end, this trail starts out more like a two-track, which is very wide, going along a forested hillside, on dusty, dry dirt. There are several shallow water crossings in the beginning. As it continues north, it starts to have a few root obstacles in the trees. The root obstacles are pretty manageable if you pick the right line; they are often wide all the way across the trail, but a foot tall and dug out. Eventually, it narrows up into more of a single track. The last bit of trail on the north end gets really steep as it climbs up to the intersection with Dry Henderson. It's troughed and narrow to where the sides of the trail grab your pegs, and there are a couple of really steep root obstacles and a rock obstacle at the very end. Although steep at the end, this trail doesn't have as much exposure as some of the surrounding trails, which helps keep the consequence level low when attempting the root obstacles.