Larrabee State Park - Rock Trail, Larrabee State Park - Double Diamond Trail & Larrabee State Park - South Lost Lake Trail — Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2021

I started at the trailhead for the Fragrance Lake Road which doesn't provide a lot of stimulus as a trail but there are some nice cedars and a few large Douglas firs along the way. At about 1.4 miles there is an impressive waterfall coming over solid rock slabs. At the junction of the South Lost Lake Trail I went right for about fifty yards and came to decision time as stared at the bottom of the Double Diamond-continue with the South Lost Lake Trail or go up the DD- I went up. When you begin you are on the bike trail and then hikers go off to the left on their own trail free of bikes and then higher up you hit the bike trail again. I kept an eye out for movement across the switchbacks above me and listened for biker's screams of enjoyment (I think that was the noise they were making). All of them were courteous and let me know if there were others behind them.

At the junction I took the Rock Trail. I had thought about having lunch at the Cyrus Gates Overlook but a biker told me that Cleator Road was open again so I skipped looking at a bunch of vehicles and the busyness that entailed and descended the Escher like stairs to the cliff base.

The Rock Trail is still as impressive as ever: the massiveness, colorful stains of minerals, moss, lichen and textures. I spent some time there and then descended to the South Lost Lake Trail and then the Fragrance Lake Road again back to the trailhead.