Hiking – Beaver Creek Wilderness Study Area

The trail does become faint in places, CoTrex and AllTrails helped to assure that we stayed on track.  The trail takes off to the right from the road.  The sign is down.  We did come across a couple fallen trees that had to be climbed over on the Trail Gulch portion of the loop.  I chose to take this hike clockwise knowing that there is an area that might not be passable 1.3 miles in.  If the stream was too high to cross, we had the option of taking a route that goes above and has a reputation for the kind of exposure only mountain goats like, or, turning back and doing the trail counterclockwise as an in and out. The stream was low enough to cross easily.  There were areas of the trail that were narrow with long drop offs, and crumbly rock.  On the Power Line section hikers spotted downed power lines from the old Skaguay Power Plant, as well as remnants that were washed downstream in one of the floods that took place.  There are also traces of the old ranches that were once in the area.  Trail workers have improved this trail and made it pleasantly doable without removing all the challenges.  Great views.