{"id":1358,"date":"2016-09-09T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:09:26","slug":"crht-recon-in-east-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"CRHT Recon in East County"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have\u00a0an ongoing project of personally surveying\u00a0the California Riding and Hiking Trail<\/a> throughout San Diego County.\u00a0 I have a page up on my site with\u00a0an interactive map\u00a0of San Diego\u2019s\u00a0counties\u2019 GIS data on where the trail is\/supposed to be.\u00a0\u00a0I have been adding my\u00a0notes on the actual placement and status of the various trail sections.\u00a0\u00a0 You have to point and click to see much of the pop-up data, comments and some pictures.\u00a0 Its pretty much my online notes.\u00a0\u00a0Last month after\u00a0doing a\u00a0ride out in the Cuyamaca Mountains<\/a> I took the long way home that included some of the further out bit sections I had not looked at yet.\u00a0\u00a0 The first stop was to drive up to Julian and down Banner grade road to pick up the Chariot Canyon truck trail and then over to Rodriguez Canyon.\u00a0\u00a0 This is part of the Oriflamme Canyon loop<\/a> route that I describe on my site.<\/p>\n

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What I was looking for was the CRHT north of the Rodriguez Canyon truck trail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I found it but is was not where the county GIS data said it was.\u00a0\u00a0 It was actually about a 1\/10th of a mile west.\u00a0\u00a0It appears that at some point in the past the trail was rerouted to avoid going through private just to the east the current actual trail.\u00a0\u00a0 The trail has seen little use but it well defined single track.\u00a0 Once it rejoins\u00a0the original track it\u00a0looks to be an old fire road from my visual from across the ridge.<\/p>\n

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The section of the CRHT just north of Rodriguez Canyon Truck Trail.<\/p>\n

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Next I made my way back to Banner and then down into San Felipe Valley to scout where the trail crosses Banner Grade Road.\u00a0 This area is part of the San Felipe Valley Wildlife Area managed by the CA Department of Fencing<\/del> Fish and Wildlife.\u00a0 This wildlife area encompasses around 17,800 acres.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0CDFW has established that the only appropriate recreation activity out here\u00a0is wildlife viewing by foot traffic only,\u00a0shooting the heads of\u00a0quail\u00a0and killing deer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evidently there is\u00a0no room for equestrians or mountain biking to enjoy the historic CRHT that passes through this area.<\/p>\n

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I was able to find the trail south of Banner Grade Road but it\u00a0is getting a hard to follow.\u00a0\u00a0 The CRHT crosses Banner Grade road and proceeds across the valley on one of the dirt ranch roads.\u00a0 I did find a wood CRHT makers just north of the Banner grade road and just south of the ranch road. (Its at CRHT-142A if you are following along with my CRHT page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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I then drove down to Scissor\u2019s Crossing and went up San Felipe Road (County Road S2) to pickup the CRHT where it intersects this road.\u00a0 I did find a post that should be a CRHT marker based on its location but the top of the post had been cut off so there was no distinctive yellow painted \u201ccap\u201d on the post.\u00a0 This side of the property had a CDFW Wildlife area \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d signage.\u00a0\u00a0 So even if you wanted to enjoy the CRHT as a hiker you would have a perplexing problem of you could enter from the south but somewhere along your northward journey you would be trespassing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Along the north side of San Felipe Road, I quickly found CRHT marker posts paralleling the road.<\/p>\n

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These posts were typically about 30-50 feet\u00a0north of the road.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There had been a\u00a0wildfire through here some time ago and\u00a0I was having a tough time picking up\u00a0and following the trail.\u00a0\u00a0This section is also part of the San Felipe Wildlife area with the same foot traffic only or no trespassing access management scheme. \u00a0After about a couple of miles of heading northwest\u00a0along the road\u00a0I was unable to find any more posts.<\/p>\n

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A few more mile up the road I started seeing the newer style CRHT markers right of the side of the road and those continued at quite regularly until where the CRHT turn away from San Felipe Road\u00a0 (This is at CRHT-161A on my map) and heads up an old dirt road.\u00a0\u00a0 I believe this trail starts off as an easement through a bit of private property as it is well signed and easy to follow.\u00a0 I did not proceed much further up the trail from there.\u00a0\u00a0 I will have to assess those bits further north at some other time.\u00a0\u00a0 The next significant road crossing is supposed to be near the junction San Felipe Road and Montezuma Valley\u00a0road (County Road S22).\u00a0\u00a0 On a previous outing I had looked\u00a0for the trail in this area but came up empty.\u00a0\u00a0 I came up all blanks this time as well from the truck.\u00a0\u00a0 Next time I\u2019ll be out with the bike and explore in from the south were I know the trail exists.\u00a0\u00a0 I have done the trail north of the road junction before out through Warner Springs so that was it for this recon outing.<\/p>\n

While I still have some miles left to look at in the county and I have not crunched the numbers yet, there is a convergence\u00a0of threats for this trail developing.\u00a0\u00a0 It looks like the\u00a0number one threat for public access\u00a0and\u00a0preservation of the CRHT\u00a0in\u00a0San Diego\u00a0County is\u00a0the California State\u00a0public land management agencies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let that\u00a0ruminate in your melon\u00a0for a while!<\/p>\n

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