Six Mile Run, East

Six Mile Run, East (2/16/2013)

Last month we hiked a beautiful lollipop in the western part of this park starting at Jaques Lane and venturing as far east as the "concrete bridge" labeled on the JORBA map for this park. Today we hiked a good part of the eastern part beginning at the soccer field on Route 27.

It was our intent to hike another lollipop incorporating the entire length of the Red trail east of the concrete bridge, all of the Orange trail, and what is marked as a black trail on the map. According to the map the Orange trail between the powerline and pipeline cuts is one of the twistiest trails designed even by JORBA and their trails (tailored for mountain biking) tend to be twisty to begin with. We began by heading west on Red, then continued on Black (which is not blazed). We intended to next take Orange from its eastern end to its western end, but we couldn't find Orange until we got to the pipeline cut. We continued walking along a nice lane between evergreens instead. It's probably best that we found Orange further west because even the relatively short portion we hiked was twisty enough, and the map indicates it is much less twisty than the eastern part of Orange! At the end of Orange we headed north along Red to the concrete bridge which seems to have been broken and partially washed away (last month we could have easily walked across the entire thing, but not today). At this point we turned around and took Red all the way back to the car.

Total distance hiked today was 4.5 miles in just under 3 hours.

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