I've been up to Dirty Harry's Peak a few times and have wondered about the unmarked "Web Mountain Trail" that takes off from one of the switchbacks. So today that was the objective; a beautiful pond under Web Mountain.
The trail starts as an obvious, brushy, old logging road. Abruptly, that ends and it takes off straight uphill but it's pretty easy to follow. Upon crossing another logging road, I took a bad turn and had to bushwhack back to find the trail again. I used Gaia and it was essential a few times.
The trail is faint but easy to follow where it is in the dark woods and is really lovely. It traverses right below some huge talus fields, then gets to a saddle area before turning steeply back uphill. The final push (in picture) is extremely steep (like Kamikaze trail if you've done that one...). This is in the trees, so no exposure or scrambling, but you should have poles to help. But it slacks off and enters the main event - a huge open talus area spotted with perfect subalpine firs and similar trees. Here we found a couple of cairns to guide us. We just kept going up the talus and shortly popped over the ridge to reveal the pond. This is the source of Granite Creek.
We had a nice sit on the rocks here and had some food in the sun. Tremendous place and worth the effort! Just make sure you have a gps app and are comfortable finding faint trails.
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