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To relocate the trail, find a dirt jeep track directly opposite where you hit the road; walk 80 yards up this track to the large gravel parking lot for the little-used Storey Burn Trailhead. Your signed trail loop continues on the west side of this parking lot.

The Storey Burn Trail now travels gently up and down for 0.5 mile taking you past forest openings offering good views of heavily forested Larch Mountain to the north and the upper reaches of the Wilson River Canyon to the west. Past these openings the well-graded trail winds down through attractive woods to Highway 6. You avoid the traffic by crossing under a tall road bridge. About 0.2 mile later is a signed junction with an all-terrain vehicle trail.

Go straight. For the next 0.3 mile you cross the flats beside Devils Lake Fork Wilson River. These often muddy flats are covered with a tangle of mixed deciduous trees. Look for the tracks of elk, deer, raccoons, and black bears. After leaving the flats, the trail climbs a hillside for 0.1 mile to a junction with the Gravelle Brothers Trail (ssss1). Turn left (uphill) and walk 120 yards to a junction with an old jeep road. Go left again (uphill) and walk 0.3 mile on this road to a large highway department facility at Rogers Pass. After you hike around the highway facility, go 300 yards east along the shoulder of the busy highway to a large gravel pull-out signed as the SUMMIT TRAILHEAD.