The Boulder Canyon ride

The  boulder canyon ride was a pretty hard ride  to do on horseback. The trail itself is  rated a  black Diamond trail and not reccommended for stock. It was  hard  to follow the  trail at times because of  overgrown brush and missing rock cairns. If you want  to teach your  horse that  he has  to watch where he places his feet, then this is the  trail for you. I would  rate  half of this  trail as  pretty technical (8.5-9) only  because of that. there are  long steep downgrades  with  rock"steps" of  2-3' that will have  to be negotiated with  steep dropoffs on one side  of the  trail. BUT IT WAS FUN!

We ran into 2 hikers  on this  entire  ride  because  of the remotness and  trail difficulty.

This is  the  best that the  trail is marked…. It goes downhill from here…..

Lots of rock. This place  is  aptly named….

                                                        Lunch Break and Rest Break

                        You get a great view  of  Weavers needle coming back on the  104 trail.

                                               Peg enjoying the  fine  scenery  on this ride!

      We saw lots  of  abandoned goldmines  along the trailon the  way  back to the First water trailhead.

                   Nearing  the  end of  another  perfect  day in "Paradise" with great  trail buddies!