Hall Creek

Bill claims that we are now unofficial members of the Whitebark trail maintenance auxillary after today's effort. We started out at the new Hall Creek trail but did not follow the same path as Whitebark's recent report. Two years ago the start of the trail off the railroad grade was rough and steep. Significant improvements have been made but you just can't take the steep out of the first 1200 feet of gain. There is relatively new signage: (something) viewpoint; Whitebarks bivouac; Hall point; Jays Landing; Change Creek rest stop; and pond trail. Two years ago, Bill and I turned back due to the brush factor near the Jays Landing area. The brush has to be bad for Bill to turn back. Right now, the trail is in pretty decent shape including a new and nice side trail up to Hall Point. Bill and I did do some cutting and clipping at and near Jays Landing onward and any future visitors could do a good deed by also brushing things out here and there. I found out that Bill's saw is sharp, very sharp.

Eventually we connected with a decent road and came to the new Pond Trail sign and followed that to another old road. That road led up to the "bowtie junction" on the Great Wall part of the trail. From here we completed our loop trip down the Great Wall trail back to the junction with the main trail and back to the full parking lot.

We saw nobody until the descent of the Great Wall trail.