046-135-137-503 Trails

Today we went for our final trail ride recon for our excursion next week.  We found the trail loop that we had been looking for.  It is approximately 12 miles in length and does not have any real technical areas.  It is rocky!  The trails are clearly marked and has lots of pullout areas for viewing and resting from the 4 wheelers.  We took about 3 hours to complete the loop and finished it with lunch at the Lodge Pole Grill at Daniels Summit Lodge.  Trail 046 is Main Canyon road it will take you to Wallsburg and into Round Valley, we started on this trail and traveled about 3 miles and took Trail 135 which is Strawberry Ridge trail it goes through pine into aspens and into large meadows topping out at a beautiful peak overlooking all of North Central Utah.  We could see down into Fairview and the Manti La-Salles, Nebo, Mt. Loafer, Provo Peak, Cascade, Timpanogas and Utah Valley in the background looking down through Provo Canyon. 

Wrapping further North into Devils Castle, Snake Creek, Brighton, Jupiter Bowl, the West end of the Uinta’s into Current Creek and finishing out with a great view of Strawberry valley.  This place will be perfect for everyone to enjoy and take pictures.  The bugs were out and plentiful, lots of butterflies!  Bluebirds everywhere and the flowers were actually very colorful today.  From the ridge were traveled to trail 137 the East end of Strawberry Ridge, it travels through aspen groves and large stands of pines, the pines have been decimated by beetles too bad they can’t let the logger clean it up.  We met up with trail 503 which lead back to Daniels Summit having been on this trail a few times we cruised back pretty quickly.  The lunch was good and not too pricey.  This was an enjoyable albeit rocky ride but the scenery overwhelmed the trail and made it a very nice trail ride.  The Can Am ran great after last rides episodes I took in for maintenance and they cleaned up some things and it ran great.