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Orchard Gulch ATV trail.
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Rocky Canyon Road, from the parking area at the end of the pavement to the mouth of Orchard Gulch.
Springtime in Rocky Canyon. Stop here and listen for a while to the Canyon Wrens and the rushing water.
Rocky Canyon Road.
Orchard Gulch ATV trail from Orchard Gulch up a long mining road to the Boise Ridge Road.
The Orchard Gulch ATV starts out deceptively easy but in just a few more miles you will have climbed 1600 feet above this point.
Larkspur is not good for cattle.
A ponderosa pine has to be very hardy to survive by itself at low elevation on this hot slope. You are now half way up this grind -- the best is yet to come.
The mining road winds its way through the blooming daisys.
Boise Ridge Road. The distance from the top of the Orchard Gulch ATV trail to the top of the Orchard Gulch trail is just 0.4 mile.
Trail 4, then Trail 6, down to Trail 5. The very steep trail 6 drops rapidly into the Curlew Creek drainage off the top of the Hulls Gulch trail. Mountain bikers will walk many sections of trail 6.
Mules Ears Daisys on Trail 6. Sheepherder tend in background.
Sheepherders, usually from Peru, live a 19th century life within site of Boise, Idaho.
After a break of a few years, sheep have once again returned to the Boise Front. These sheep were being watched by Peruvians on horseback wearing wool clothes in a strange warp of time and space.
Return to Rocky Canyon Road on the Freestone Ridge and Shanes Trails. (When you reach the gate on the Freestone Ridge trail, head uphill again on the private road toward junkyard gulch to reach Shanes trail.) Closed to motorized vehicles.
Where's Waldo. Anonymous Mountain Biker (In photogenic Red Jersey) on Shanes Loop.
This is the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, you still have 800 more feet to climb.
Curlew Connector Upper Trail Head. Leave the Hulls Gulch Motorcycle trail at this point to travel down the steep and dangerous (at least for mountain bikes) Curlew Connector trail 6.
Hulls Gulch Motorcycle trail, upper trailhead.
Hikers could proceed downward from this point into Five Mile Gulch, far below.
Trail 6 loops back to the Hulls Gulch Motorcyle Trail from this point. Motorcylists should head back uphill from this point and return to the Boise Ridge Road on trail 4, as below this point they will run into many LAMBS. ( low altitude mountain bikers ).
Orchard Gulch Upper Trailhead. Because this trailhead is unmarked, many people go right by here not realizing that this is the top of the Orchard Gulch trail.
Junction of Trail4 and Trail4A. The Hulls Gulch Motorcycle trail contours to the North through the burned trees, across the top of Hulls Gulch, and ends up over on the Eight Street extension.
