The new Garfield Ledges trail is still not completed/open to the public. There were several Greenway Trust vehicles near the area, as well as an "event here" sign- we hoped we'd find the trail had opened when we returned to the junction/new parking area but still had the "trail closed for construction" sign up.
We took the climber's trail up to the Infinite Bliss climbing route and climbed several pitches up the slab to the right of the watercourse.
The trail itself is hard to find, no cairn and not obvious until you've been on it for a minute. it starts about a mile past the start of Dingford Road (where it turns to gravel/rocks), a little beyond a wide pullout with a fire pit. It is then a pleasant, mossy trail through the forest that quickly becomes steep, rooty and scrambly at the top. It's less than a mile but gains 1,000+ feet. At the top is a nice rocky ledge where the climbing route starts and there are nice views across to the Middle Fork Valley, Stegosaurus Butte, the Pulpit and across to Green and Bessemer. If you like steep out of the way trails, you might enjoy this one for something different :)
Once we ascended several pitches I could see the middle fork trail landslide. Big trees down. Of interest to me was the fact that you could see above the landslide the trees were obviously smaller and different than the rest of the surrounding forest. Perhaps this isn't the first landslide in this location?
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