Not the hike I was expecting to take but my Google search for "Trailhead for Poo Poo Point" took me here. Nice and short, up and down in 2.5 hours. Raining today and the trail was a bit muddy and slippery. A couple down trees that needed a scramble to get around. The launch pads at the point are pretty cool.

Good late afternoon-early evening hike up to West Tiger 2, starting at the Poo Poo Point- Chirico Trailhead. Many thanks to those who have cleared the many blowdowns on the Chirico Trail, One View, and the TMT.  There is still a mess of blowdowns on the TMT just below the Dramatic Erratic below WT2. Trail crews have started on this section, as they have flagged a route through the many trees that are down.

On the way back down from WT2 summit, instead of going back down this way, I continued down the Tiger Mountain Road to the start of Poo Top Trail, and went down Hidden Forest Trail to the TMT. I would of taken the Hidden Forest trail all the way down to the Westside Road, but without knowing the conditions of the trail, along with it getting dark, I took a right on the TMT for 0.1 mile, and took the One View Trail back to the Poo Poo Point Trail which I took back to Poo Point where I got a good view of the city lights, and back down to the Chirico trailhead. 9.4 miles RT with 3478 ft gain

Thank you to the crews that have cleared debris from the storm! There were so many logs that had been cut up and moved off the trail. There is one big tree and root ball down right after the decorated tree that was difficult to climb over. It looks like it came down in the last week. There was another older blowdown near the top that was easier to get around.

There were only a dozen or so cars in the lot at 8 a.m. and it was getting closer to full by 11. The restrooms were clean. We saw an adorable puppy on the trail named Bazinga. Made my day!

I was so impressed with the amount of work done to clear all the windfall.  A big thank you to all involved.  The trail is now in excellent condition and there's only one remaining blowdown near the top that is easy to walk over.  There are a few root craters from fallen trees that took out the trail tread.  This looks like it will be fairly easy to repair. I counted rings on one of the larger cut windfall trees and it was about 220 years old!  I spend a little time scraping away some unwanted graffiti from a fence post.

The parking lot was about 1/2 full at 9 am.  There was a significant inversion lingering, so it was around freezing at the trailhead and pushing 50 degrees near the top. Nice clear views today.  We took a short side trip on the dirt access road to see a view of the new clearcut on Middle Tiger.  They left a few straggly looking trees which actually makes it look even worse.  I have no idea if the Middle Tiger trail is still open.  It does look like the view from there will very good to the south.

RT 5.5 mi, 1700 ft