Secret Canyon is just one of the many awesome trails that we have up here in Northern Nevada and really, it's trails like this that make us love living here. Close to town, short enough to do in a day and yet, hard enough to be a real challenge and of course, a ton of fun. While our good friend Adam was up here visiting us earlier in the week, we decided to do a run up this awesome trail and here are some photos from our day out on this Secret trail.
Here's a shot of us heading out to Secret Canyon on a beautiful Northern Nevada day.
As you can see, you get right into the rocks the moment you drop into the canyon.
And the rocks keep on coming one right after the other.
And the rocks get even bigger from time to time.
One of the more level sections of trail.
But, that didn't last long.
About half way through the trail, there is a pretty good size waterfall that has boulders making up the face of it that stand about 5'-7' tall. Fortunately, the water that normally pools below it was dry and so was the mud that makes up its bed. This photo doesn't really do the obstacle justice but you can kind of get an idea of how big it is and you can even see the mud caked rocks from rigs that climbed it before things dried up.
Cindy starting her climb up.
A bit tougher to do in a 2-door but, here's Adam doing a great job working his way up.
Adam humping this rock for a bit and he tried to free himself from it.
Almost there but no cigar.
Cindy lending a helping hand.
Another flat-ish section of trail.
Okay, that was short lived - more big rocks.
With thunder clouds overhead, Cindy started to navigate Moby up the big rock garden toward the end of the trail.
Plenty of room to spare.
And she's out!
Adam making his approach.
Getting into the thick of it.
After a good start, Adam got hung up a bit and needed a little help so Cindy backed Moby down to lend another hand.
On the move again.
Making good progress.
And just like that, we were out of the canyon.
Airing up after a great day out on the trail.
And ahead of the storm.
After picking up Rubicat, we headed out to the Northern Nevada Suds-n-Grub.
To good friends, good times and a very Happy Birthday to Adam - CHEERS!!
If you know where this trail is, please keep any information about it, it's location or how to get there off the internet. While it is an open trail, it is one that the locals do in fact prefer to keep "secret", or as much as possible. Your help in keeping it this way would be most appreciated.
Here's a shot of us heading out to Secret Canyon on a beautiful Northern Nevada day.
As you can see, you get right into the rocks the moment you drop into the canyon.
And the rocks keep on coming one right after the other.
And the rocks get even bigger from time to time.
One of the more level sections of trail.
But, that didn't last long.
About half way through the trail, there is a pretty good size waterfall that has boulders making up the face of it that stand about 5'-7' tall. Fortunately, the water that normally pools below it was dry and so was the mud that makes up its bed. This photo doesn't really do the obstacle justice but you can kind of get an idea of how big it is and you can even see the mud caked rocks from rigs that climbed it before things dried up.
Cindy starting her climb up.
A bit tougher to do in a 2-door but, here's Adam doing a great job working his way up.
Adam humping this rock for a bit and he tried to free himself from it.
Almost there but no cigar.
Cindy lending a helping hand.
Another flat-ish section of trail.
Okay, that was short lived - more big rocks.
With thunder clouds overhead, Cindy started to navigate Moby up the big rock garden toward the end of the trail.
Plenty of room to spare.
And she's out!
Adam making his approach.
Getting into the thick of it.
After a good start, Adam got hung up a bit and needed a little help so Cindy backed Moby down to lend another hand.
On the move again.
Making good progress.
And just like that, we were out of the canyon.
Airing up after a great day out on the trail.
And ahead of the storm.
After picking up Rubicat, we headed out to the Northern Nevada Suds-n-Grub.
To good friends, good times and a very Happy Birthday to Adam - CHEERS!!
If you know where this trail is, please keep any information about it, it's location or how to get there off the internet. While it is an open trail, it is one that the locals do in fact prefer to keep "secret", or as much as possible. Your help in keeping it this way would be most appreciated.
