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After rounding a ridge, you contour across intermittently open slopes on the walls of a huge forested canyon. As you get close to the head of the canyon, you will be able to glimpse a towering 100-foot waterfall on Rock Creek to your left. Unfortunately, you never get a really good look at the falls from the trail, and there is no easy scramble to a better viewpoint. Cross the wooden bridge over Rock Creek and begin your climb out of the canyon at a moderate grade. A mix of eight switchbacks and long traverses eventually leads up heavily wooded slopes to a junction with an old road near a saddle in the ridge.

Turn right on this bumpy and rocky track and climb steeply through viewless forests on the south side of the ridge. After a little over a mile, check carefully on the left for a look at the sheer columnar basalt cliffs of Sturgeon Rock. For a better look, you can scramble off the trail to some excellent viewpoints at the base of the cliffs, where you can sometimes see climbers inching their way up the rock face.