Diamond Creek Rd., Bear Creek Trail, Webster Ridge Trail, Trails #125, #123, #122, #391
Level of Difficulty: 5- Lower Intermediate to 8-Advanced intermediate
Elevations: 6411' to 8986'
Starting Point Coordinates: N42°47.429' W111°23.006'
Length of Trail: 49 miles
Approximate time: 3 1/2 hours
Dates of Rides: 10/01/10
Description: I finally made it back to this area after doing an exploratory ride two years ago. So many places to ride, so little time! I had really wanted to check out the Webster Ridge Trail as I saw a sign for it passing over Smokey Canyon Rd. during my exploratory trip.
We parked at the end of the pavement on Blackfoot River Rd. where there is a parking area. It is about 13 miles down a gravel road, much of it with very loose gravel to Trail #150. That trail ended about in about a mile. There was another trail that went off of it, but I forgot to take a picture and can't remember the #. However we decided to ride back down to Diamond Creek Rd and try to find another access point that might lead us to the ridge. We took trail #125. We came to a fork and went to the right which took us back to the Road. Coming back up the trail and taking the fork to the left took us on over to Trail #123 which took us to Webster Ridge Trail. All of this was pretty decent four wheeler trail. It was a relatively good climb in places, but not a real challenge. When we got to Webster Ridge Trail we could have went ether left or right. To go right it is about 2 miles to the Smokey Canyon Rd. We went left and road about five miles. The sign said that it was five miles to Horse Creek, but we didn't see it. We took trail #122 which was not marked on the top, other than just a marker that said 'trail'. It proved to be a fairly steep decent on a fairly good four wheeler trail down into #1269 which comes off of Diamond Creek Rd. This is the part that I would rate as an 8, just because of how steep it was. If you don't like doing down steeper inclines you may want to avoid it, however, it had pretty good footing with dirt and little to no loose rock.
From there we did some exploring on the West side of Diamond Creek Rd. The first trail ended up just parallelingthe road and eventually going back to the road. The second was a short 1/3 mile ride to a dead end. The third started off as a jeep track, but soon became a single track. It isn't a highly used trail and there was a lot of timber down that you had to ride around. However, there were some freshly cut logs indicating some one had ridden in there fairly recently. We ended up cutitng an 8" log with a folding bow saw and moving another tree off the trail. All in all we ended up going up this trail, #391 about 2 miles before we decided that it wasn't worth it any more. Besides, my friend's bike was running close to empty. It was a fun ride up there with some challenging side hills and a few creek crossings.
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