The road leading to the Rock Trail trailhead is dirt. If you go slow, all cars can make it up but there were some minor ruts to drive around.
Seeing as though you drive up for a bit to get to the trailhead, it's no wonder the trail goes down. I thought it was really cool that this was one of the WTA signature projects. The rocks along the trail are really neat how they have the divots and holes, etc. I saw but did not explore the cave that is mentioned in hike description. The path leading up to it is a bit overgrown and I could only imagine that some animal is using it as a home so didn't want to go sticking my head in there anyway.
After Rock Trail, we turned left and headed down to Lost lake. We walked along the lake trail for a bit to a rock opening where there is a small creek. Then we turned around vs continuing on due to time constraints. The trailhead map didn't show the trail continuing much further but my caltopo map did and I could see the trail continuing on. Not sure if the continuation was new since the trailhead map was created?
Climbing the stairs back up breaks a sweat but nothing too crazy. Def a good workout though. Nice to see the rocks from the other direction as well. There were several other trails off of Rock Trail that would have been fun to explore if we had had more time. This is such a great area to hike in!
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