Butcher Ranch Trail


IMG_4271-73.jpg (110934 bytes)View from Packer Saddle looking east.
IMG_4277.JPG (81305 bytes)Ready to go with cheese and crackers packed in the Camelbak.

Sierra Buttes in the background...

IMG_4278.JPG (104065 bytes)  Patrick is a small blob in the middle of the trail...

Unofficial singletrack section above Butcher Ranch:

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IMG_4283.JPG (84932 bytes)Vertical gully at the beginning of Butcher... 

IMG_4287.JPG (124225 bytes)Even in August, part of the trail was still a creek... IMG_4300.JPG (118050 bytes)
Technical section...IMG_4303.JPG (127840 bytes)

 

IMG_4305.JPG (98906 bytes)...never mind...
IMG_4306.JPG (97981 bytes)Old growth forest
IMG_4311.JPG (95516 bytes)Trail bridge, with Big Boulder "ridge" in the background IMG_4313.JPG (86060 bytes)Eat a staple diet of red vines and nothing bad will ever happen to you.
IMG_4317.JPG (84389 bytes)End of Third Divide trail
IMG_4319.JPG (96557 bytes)Beginning of First Divide...

elsie@foothill.net
27 May 2003