Level of Difficulty: 5-Intermediate. (Much of it was just on gravel roads, but a few miles was on more difficult and very primative 4-wheeler trails with rocks, brush and fairly deep decents.)
Elevations: 6148 to 8104 feet.
Starting Point Coordinates: N42°38.636', W111°30.538'
Length of Trail: 30 miles
Approximate time: 2 hours
Date of Ride: September 1, 2007
This map shows you a ways up the road. There is an unloading are where the North and South Canyon roads fork, which is where we parked. Click the map for point to point directions.
Elevation Profile:
This is a view from the West
Pic 1 -- This is looking from the unloading area, at the fork of North and South Sulpher Canyon Road. The North road is very primative.
Pic 2 -- This was at the beginning of the ride. Turned out kind of unique with the sun shining through the trees.
Pic 3 -- Looking back over the valley towards the Southwest.
Pic 4 -- Speeding down a flat place in the road.
Pic 5 -- If you look at the map this is a four wheeler trail that began shortly after we went left at the fork. It was a freshly broken trail. It wound between the Quaky Aspen trees, some of it fairly steep and loose.
Pic 6 -- Here we hit another jeep trail in Burchert Canyon, after coming down off a fairly steep 4-wheeler trail. We came across a man on a horse tending a herd of sheep.
Pic 7 -- This is coming out of Burchert Canyon into Petterson Canyon. We didn't go to far down this way, but decided to turn around and head back to the East.
Pic 8 -- We came to a fork and decided to go turn right, up the Dry Fork Canyon, and it turned out to be quite the challenging trail with lots of fallen trees and riding up a creek bed at times. Just when you thought the trail was going to end and the trail seemed to disappear it would look fairly well traveled again. We ended up going the distance and connecting to the trail that we would have been on had we stayed to the left.
Pic 9 -- this is one of the places we were riding up a rocky creek bed.
Pic 10 -- This is Big Basin. We turned left here, the direction the motorcycle is heading in the picture. We didn't check out where it went if you turn right.