Hex Mountain, Corral Creek — Monday, Jun. 21, 2021

We drove up FS road 4305 and turned left on FS 118 to the Sasse Mt. trailhead. The trail goes through the burn area of the 2017 Jolly Mt. Fire.  It is out in the open as you climb to Hex Mt.  Someone suggested that we take the Corral Creek trail for awhile and then take the cut over trail to the Sasse Mt. trail, which I have taken before.  The problem was we could not find the cut over trail, even by the builder of the trail.  Most of us decided to take the Corral Creek trail down and two people went back to get the cars.  On the way back they did find the trail, but it was grown over having not been used in a while.  It was a mistake to take the Corral Creek trail down as it is heavily used by motorcycles (although we did not see any on our hike) and is very rough with loose scree.  All but one person slid on the scree; the rest of us landed on our behinds at least once.  In addition, there was a bit of uphill on the way out.  Fotunately, our drivers found the Corral Creek trailhead as it not marked except for motorcycle tracks all over the place.