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Start by walking the road almost all the way back to Highway 6. Just 50 feet before the highway, turn left at a trail sign and follow the outside of a barrier that loops around a highway department gravel yard and storage building. At the west end of the facility, turn left on Gravelle Brothers Trail, which goes downhill following an abandoned jeep road. At 0.3 mile veer right onto a narrow foot trail and walk 120 yards to a possibly unsigned junction with the Storey Burn Trail. You go straight, still on the Gravelle Brothers Trail, and make a short switchbacking descent to a log bridge over clear-flowing Devils Lake Fork Wilson River. This is a lovely spot at any time of year but especially in mid-spring and late fall when the red alders that fill this area are either coming out in full greenery or putting on an impressive display of muted yellow.

The trail climbs slowly away from the river through a second-growth forest of Douglas firs and red alders. Although viewless, the scenery is very attractive especially around the several small intermittent creeks that cross your path. You may hear the occasional truck on increasingly distant Highway 6 or perhaps be disturbed by the noise of ATVs on a paralleling trail on your right, but the dominant sounds are the songs of winter wrens and kinglets in the forest. After a short up-and-down traverse, you curve to the south and follow a hillside well above often unseen Elliot Creek.