Wolf Ridge 0.5pd, Twentymile 2.6pd &1.9n, Lost Cove 2.7n & 2.7pd, Twentymile 1.9pd, Twentymile Loop 2.9n, Wolf Ridge 1.1 & 0.5pd

I arrived at my Louisville neighbor’s (Jim Harb's) home at 06:40; we went in his car and met Dennis McAdams at the Foothill Parkway entrance at 7:20. We then proceeded in Jim’s car to the trailhead at Twentymile Ranger Station and arrived there at 8:20. We covered our first 3 miles in one hour. At 10:16 we began our trek on Lost Cove; according to the Brown Book it has 13 stream crossings. We rock-hopped the first ones and then put on our water shoes for the last three; at our junction with Lakeshore Trail we turned around and kept our water shoes on for the first 5 on our return. We then put on our boots and shortly thereafter ate lunch at Campsite 91 (see pic).

The return on Lost Cove is primarily “up” and our pace slowed. We met an apparently husband and wife couple and they planned to do Lost Cove without having water shoes; I hope that they made it. At 2:00 we finished Lost Cove for the 2nd time; our 1.9 mile trek on the Twentymile trail took us 42 min. We then went on the Twentymile Loop trail (2.9 mi.). We had one rock hopping crossing but we had expected a major one just prior to this trail’s junction with Wolf Ridge; to our surprise a relatively new log bridge had been installed.

We then reached Wolf Ridge (a trail that I had completed on 2005); on this trail there were 6 log bridges. Some were relatively new and "cabled to trees" to better withstand floods. I do not remember seeing so many in my trek in this area in 8/06. Thus we had an easy trek back to Jim’s car. Our 15.6 mile trek ended at 4:30. However, after Jim and I left Dennis at the entrance to Foothills Parkway, we arrived in Louisville ~6:00.