Grayback Mountain Trail

Today we took the truck up Rock Creek Road with our bikes. It is nice to hop on the bike from the house but we needed to get to the fun stuff.  We parked about a mile up Rock Creek and started the climb. 

You can drive to the bottom of the trail head, we took the road to a junction on a gated spur road and started heading up towards Grayback.  Essentially we wanted to do at least a portion of this trail posted here on this blog post. (scroll down a bit).

 

Getting ready to head up the trail.

After accessing the upper part of the trail we headed up the mountain towards the summit of Grayback.

The upper trail access, you can head up to Grayback or down.

The upper trail had a lot of loose leaf litter on it, tan oak and other leaves.  It looks like some horses had recently made their way up because it seemed almost tilled in places.

A great ride for a warm day, lots of canopy cover.

There were a lot of neat rock outcroppings throughout the trail.

This one dropped off about 25 feet.

The trail for most of the way was a fairly gradual climb and actually quite technical in places.

Pretty easy section here.

We turned around once we got a nice vista of the top, next time we are going to take it to the top.  We rode only about 8 miles round trip and traveled close to 1500 vertical in that distance to where we turned around.  Probably the best trail around Williams.

Here is the top of Grayback.

On the way back down the trail.