North Yuba - Halls Ranch - Fiddle Creek Ridge
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 20.24 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,805 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 2,999 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,137 ft
- TrailRank
- 30
- Min elevation
- 756 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 3 hours 33 minutes
- Coordinates
- 795
- Uploaded
- May 19, 2009
- Recorded
- May 2009
near Indian Hill (historical), California (United States)
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Itinerary description
Spring 2009
Park at Rocky Reach and cross the N Yuba river on the foot bridge to begin the ride. Follow the technical singletrack upstream to a gravel road, turn left and ride .7 miles to the highway, turn left and ride about 1.8 miles to the well signed Hall's Ranch Trail. Prepare to suffer! 14 switchbacks and no doubt some pushing gets you on top of the ridge, but this is by no means the end of the climbing, the trail rolls up and down sometimes very steeply as it follows the ridge westward. After about .4 miles the Hall's Ranch trail dives off the ridge to the right and the Fiddle Creek trail begins. This is one of those trails that you may only need to do once in your life, it's suffering to bliss ratio is kind of high in my opinion. But you should do it at least once!
Park at Rocky Reach and cross the N Yuba river on the foot bridge to begin the ride. Follow the technical singletrack upstream to a gravel road, turn left and ride .7 miles to the highway, turn left and ride about 1.8 miles to the well signed Hall's Ranch Trail. Prepare to suffer! 14 switchbacks and no doubt some pushing gets you on top of the ridge, but this is by no means the end of the climbing, the trail rolls up and down sometimes very steeply as it follows the ridge westward. After about .4 miles the Hall's Ranch trail dives off the ridge to the right and the Fiddle Creek trail begins. This is one of those trails that you may only need to do once in your life, it's suffering to bliss ratio is kind of high in my opinion. But you should do it at least once!
Waypoints
Waypoint
2,350 ft
Fiddle END
2350 ft
Waypoint
4,088 ft
Fiddle TOP
Unpaved Road
Waypoint
2,325 ft
N Yuba BEGIN
Tahoe National Forest
Waypoint
2,769 ft
N Yuba END
07-MAY-09 13:35
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