Fish Creek Trail

[Udink]

I rode the Fish Creek National Recreation Trail this evening. I only made it two miles into the trail before tiring of the rocks, boulders, and thick brush overgrowing the trail. It's a pretty canyon, but the trail could use some serious maintenance. It looks like it gets mostly foot and horse traffic--I didn't see any signs of bikes having been on the trail recently.

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The trail starts out at a campground/picnic area a couple of miles west of Scofield Reservoir. There's a new bridge crossing Fish Creek at the trailhead. The old bridge used to be 3/4-mile up the trail, but it washed out several years ago, and the Forest Service just recently got around to putting in a new bridge and building a new trail connecting to where the old bridge used to be. The old trail is still there, and is better than the new one, but it ends where the old bridge used to be (unless you want to get wet). The newly constructed trail had a lot of loose rocks, but it was still decent.


At the trailhead


The new bridge


A steep climb immediately after the bridge


View downstream along Fish Creek


Halfway between the new and old bridges


An ugly section of trail


Remnants of the old bridge



After coming back to the original trail above where the old bridge used to be, the trail was a bit nicer. However, after another 3/4-mile, it got really ugly--lots of rocks, small boulders, and thick brush covering the trail. I went as far as I could stand, but after a full two miles into the trail, I had to turn around. My legs were taking a beating, and so were the sidewalls on my tires.


This was a pretty good section of trail


More nice, smooth trail


Starting to get rocky again


Hmm...this looked edible, but I didn't know for sure and wouldn't dare try


I turned around here when the sagebrush really narrowed up


Letting my shirt dry out back at the trailhead


Scofield Reservoir where Fish Creek enters

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[accadacca]

Cool. Your exploring some new stuff lately dood.