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After 9.2 miles on N.E. Healey Road, bear left at a poorly signed junction and travel on single-lane, paved Forest Road 57. Drive another 1.3 miles, and then turn sharply left on often unsigned Forest Road 5701. Follow this rough, paved road for 3.7 miles to its end at a trailhead parking lot.

The trail departs from the north side of the lot and drops 50 feet to an intersection with the Siouxon Creek Trail. You turn right here, drop to a bridged crossing of West Creek, and then continue another 0.8 mile through lovely creekside forests to a signed junction with the Horseshoe Ridge Trail.

You turn right here and climb away from the creek on a grade that starts off fairly steep but soon becomes very steep. More than 20 switchbacks of varying length help to lessen the grade slightly, but at other times the trail simply goes directly up the extremely steep slopes. The trail is also quite narrow, so watch your step. After about 1.5 miles you reach a minor ridge crest, after which things get a lot easier.