I took the Zig Zag Trail up to the service road (NF9021) and the service road up to Truck Summit. It’s only 3.2 miles from the parking lot to the truck but the parking lot is 1200 feet elevation and the truck is 4000 feet elevation. So it’s steep. That’s a lot of work just to see that truck but the workout is the point and the scenery is awesome.
I am planning to do the same route to the truck on Wednesday with Carl, but today I wanted to check out the service road down, as that is the way that Derek and Ryan and I will be driving in Ryan’s jeep when we make an attempt upon Chester Peak.
However, based on the only Chester Peak trip report I could find (I will send a link to Derek offline) it may be that our planned route, going south from Truck Summit, might not be doable. Instead, we might be able to take the jeep up NF110, and hike up from Chester’s more eastern approach.
We shall see how it goes. But I mentioned the scenery and here are some views:
Also, the trail up from the Hall Creek Connector, just up from the Hall Creek Trestle, quickly splits in two. If you go right you take the Hall Creek Trail, an interesting jaunt, but I went left, up Zig Zag:
Macchu Picchu, 2 photos above, is supposedly reached via Hall Creek Trail. Another one to check out.
From Truck Summit I hiked back down to the top of Zig Zag (where I today hung pink flagging tape so someone coming up is less likely to miss it) but instead of going back down Zig Zag I took the service road, wanting to see if it is driveable. It is. But that pushed my mileage to a hair under 11 miles.
It’s all good, I could use the workout.
