Blue Hole Trail

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User: Melissa-Austin - 3/19/2009

Location: Pickett Trail

Rating: 4stars
Difficulty: 3stars  Solitude: 3stars
Miles Hiked: 2.00 Miles  Elapsed Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Comments:

The first part of the trail is nice, shaded with lots of trees and it's a great change not to have the typical crushed granite pathways.  After going down the green metal stairs and the green metal bridge, I soon reached the creek again.  Unfortunately, apartment buildings were across the water.  However, I kept going up & down the rocks & continued to a part of the trail that had not been walked in quite some time (after the apartments ended).  The trail was barely noticeable and it became very rough.  I was climbing over and under many fallen trees & through a lot of rough brush.  There was also a cool cave to walk through.  I eventually approached a cliff area that was pretty challenging to walk across the multi-level rocks & hold onto tree branches to balance myself.  This area was very secluded & no one was around - it was very peacefuil.  I passed a really nice area of the creek with lots of large boulders and it made a beautiful sounding waterfall sound.  I eventually came up to an overpass with cars going across above, out of nowhere.  This is where I turned around because I could not see anymore walkable areas.  If you look down at this point, there's a very old, totalled blue pick-up truck that had trees literally growing through it and big boulders had falled on top of it.  It was really wild.  I really enjoyed this trail, although it was definitely tough on the knees and I wound up getting lots of cuts from all the brush.  If you're looking for solitude, just keep going past the end of the apartments.



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