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Trail Description

A beautiful trail lays under many down logs along Crazyman Creek, a tributary of the Imnaha River. The logs can be handled, but the trail has two other mortal flaws that need to be addressed before this sweet trail can come back to fruition. The first is that you have the ford the river at the bottom, a task that will be life threatening if done early in the year. The second is that there is no lower trailhead because it is on private land, with fences and gates blocking the way.

The trail starts atop the ridge from Road NF-2965. The trail has decayed where it switches back down a steep ridge, so footing is difficult and the trail hard to follow at times. Once you get down off the ridge you enter the deep forest where the trail surface is good and ready to rip once the logs are cut through. As it gets closer to the Imnaha it becomes more of a grassy road, but for the most part this is a solid singletrack that needs some work for a great shuttle-able descent.

Trail data mapped by Brian Sather on Oct 3, 2013 · Last update: Jun 22, 2016

Photos

Lots of sticks on the trail.
This gravel road off of the paved Wallowa Loop Road (just south of Ollokot Campground) is one way to drive or bike up to the ridge and catch the trail. The Imnaha River
This cool sign marks the trail entrance off the main road. It is a rusty metal board with the trail name etched in it. This cattleguard and where the power lines cross the road may (or may not) be a legal exit/entrance to the trail. You would have to hop the fence here and follow power lines down to the river then find a food fording place.
Not too far down the starting road, there is a sign on a tree marking the singletrack start.