Boy Scout Junction to connector road to Five Corners:

Connector road to Five Corners to Six Points: 7/21/00, CVR: This section is in good to excellent condition, having been rehabilitated as the 1999 National Trails Day project and through other projects. The only significant work still needed is minor tread improvements on short pieces of the trail.

From Simmons Trail to Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road: 8/7/04, CVR: This trail segment is in good condition, except that the vegetation needs a little trimming. The MMWD and the TCC completed a major reroute near the top of this section in December 2000, and have rehabilitated other parts of this section of the trail. One water bar near the center of this segment needs cleaning. Perhaps two or three more water bars could be added near Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road.

From Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road to Potrero Meadow: 10/14/01, CVR: About the top half of this segment of trail is mostly in good condition. As the grade steepens, a series of timber water bars has mostly failed. The trail is suffering a moderate amount of erosion. The steepest part of this section should be rerouted, which would be easy through open forest. The bottom part of the trail, through serpentine soil, is in fairly poor condition. The parts that run through chaparral are moderately brushy. A short series of switchbacks is poorly laid out and eroding. The TCC trail crew has recently made improvements, putting the very bottom of this trail segment into decent condition, but much remains to be done. The final short section, across Laurel Dell Fire Road to Potrero Meadows Picnic Area, is somewhat eroded.

Upper Section: 10/9/01, CVR: Just below Rifle Camp, the start of this section of trail is not on a bad alignment, but is undrained and is ditching. Drainage improvements are needed. The rails on Ted Cooper's Bridge are wobbly. There is a confusing maze of paths at the lateral to Cross County Boys Trail. The signs in this area, too, are confusing. The Berry Trail (or the Cross Country Boys Trail or both) north of Lagoon Fire Road is moderately to heavily overgrown, and ditched in sections. The sign at the northerly junction with the Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road should be updated--the notation "To Lower North Side Tr." points across the road to the old Rocky Ridge Fire Trail, when it should point right toward the new beginning of the Lower North Side Trail.

Middle Section: 10/9/01, CVR: The middle portion of the old trail, lying mostly on the east side of the Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road, is extremely heavily overgrown, probably impassable or nearly so. It is overlain by pipes leading to the old Air Force station at West Peak, and paralleled by a pole line. From what one can see, parts of this route are deeply ditched. In the long term, this might make an attractive rehabilitation project, but the first step would have to be to remove the pipes and, preferably, the poles.

Lower Section: 1/29/01, CVR: This trail is in pretty good shape, considering the steepness of most of the route. The MMWD has installed many water bars. Some of these need cleaning. The MMWD has also put in a number of well-built steps, and has rerouted the very bottom of the trail, nearing the intersection with the Bon Tempe Trail. The steeper parts of the route are showing a little erosion, but not to a severe degree. Probably little can be done about this. The trail is very old and receives rather heavy traffic, so the path has worn wide and is incised into the hillside in many places.