We hiked part way up the Flatiron Mountain on the Siphon Draw Trail. The official trail is 2 mi. long climbing 1000' followed by an unofficial and unmaintained trail in the wilderness area that is another mile with another 2000' climb. We were halfway up the unofficial trail when we came to what I call the waterslide. It is a steep section of relatively smooth rock that is a waterfall when the rains put much water in the flow. Now it is just a 1' wide trickle. Neither of us care for that kind of exposure on smooth rock to go up and even less to come back down. So we turned around after going 1/3 of the section. There was a side canyon with another stream coming from a small pool at the base of a cliff. Plenty cold water!
Later after taking Cal for a walk we went exploring in the truck. We wanted to find some boondock camping and while high on the mountain I had spied some scattered campers on a dirt road out the other side of camp. Well, that was indeed some dispersed camping but the road had such huge holes and gullies that we didn't care to drive the camper up there. The camping was nicely remote, just what we wanted, but not quite accessible. This is a long trailer to haul up such a road. I'd probably tear off a rear stabilizer jack in one of those tank traps.
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