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TRAIL INFORMATION
Details
| Status: | Open |
| Difficulty: | Advanced |
| Uses: | Mt Biking & Hiking & Equestrian & Motorcycle & eBikes |
| Length: | 1.3 miles |
| Start: | 6,617' |
| End: | 6,819' |
| Min: | 6,577' |
| Max: | 6,819' |
| Gain: | 308' |
| Loss: | -106' |
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Snowfall
New Snow last 12 hours: 0.34". New Snow last 24 hours: 0.8".Description / Access Information
The Narrows:The official Forest Service designation for this trail is rather long - Cove Creek Connector Trail #971. Locals know it as "The Narrows." It is gained, on its more southern, and lower end, off of Cove Creek Road. It's not a long trail, or overly steep (at first). But it is demanding, especially if you are old like me, and you're pedaling a bicycle up it.
In places, the trail is tight with vegetation, and quite incised, or "ditch-like". Pedal-strikes are certainly possible, as are scrapes and cuts from trailside bushes. "!!!Who planted that sagebrush so darn close to the trail!!!"
I think dirt bikers must like the rocky, slotty section the best. I'm no dirt-biker, but I can appreciate what it must take to get up, over and through the more challenging of it.
After the steep and demanding rock crossing, the trail continues to climb up the Cove Creek drainage. It gets increasingly steep, and its fall-line character becomes more of a problem as you near the high end of the trail. When it melts out each springtime, water runs down the trail. Without anywhere to go, but down the fall-line (where the trail is located), the trail gets increasingly eroded. So much so that it is getting kind of hard to negotiate the last bit of it.
At its high end The Narrows meets up with a secondary two-track; FS Road 116. A couple of very demanding singletrack trails can be explored off of the 116 road, but you have to find them first, and getting lost on a game trail is a potential for those unfamiliar with the territory. It's probably best to go with someone who knows the way.
Turning right, at the top, onto FS 116, will find you heading slightly downhill and in a southerly direction. Soon you will arrive at the two-track's intersection with FS Rd 115, also known as Quigley Canyon Road.
