Sounds great, we should plan on it.  Can't beat another saved trail, especially in that area. 

I could use some summertime about now, it was a cold bike ride in. 

We spent the weekend at Breitenbush however, which was very nice.  Man I love that place.  Hard to come back to the city, fighting headwinds the whole way...but at least I can sit in a gray cube now.

Went back out to this old trail again last Sunday. It was cold, but as long as you were doing something it wasn't that bad, at least it was dry. I wanted to search for the lower section of trail that we had somehow missed the previous outing. I brushed out some of the tread up the spur road to make it look more like a trail, but I left the bottom as it was to discourage other uses. I took a few pictures before my batteries gave out in my camera. Here is what the spur road looks like once you are past the logs .This was taken  before I brushed it out. That big tree on the right is were I found were the trail leaves the spur road and heads up towards Austin Hot Springs. I found that on my way down when my camera was already dead. I hiked out it for 200 yards or so to make sure that it was the trail.

Here is a picture of that flat faced rock outcrop where the real trail starts on the otherside of Switch Creek. The tread begins just past that log where the orange flagging begins.This rock outcrop is about 10 yards from the creek, so it is fairly easy to recognize. There are several old creek channels below this rock, and is why I think they called it Switch Creek to begin with, for it has a tendency to change course.

Just above the rock outcrop is a large log across the creek that I believe Rob showed a picture of in an earlier posting that he used to cross the creek. Here it is again, but with Murphy trying it out.It is good to remember encase the creek is high. It is about 50-75 yards above where the spur road comes out to the creek. There was a small segment of trail between the creek and the spur road, so I know that the spur road wiped out the trail at that point down to that big tree where the trail reappears and heads upriver.