On a mid-October day I hiked on the informal trails in the Lower Rose area.    There are a number of access points from Valleyview and from the Rose Hill Park area, but I prefer to park just off Rose Hill Road at the start of an old double track in a gully just east of the trailer park.   The track winds up onto a benchland with sagebrush grasslands sloping ridges below Rose Hill and Juniper Ridge subdivisions.    There are old tracks, some new ones for the powerline work, and lots of single track bike trails.     Over time, I have explored the trails, and I now have a 5.6 km loop route that can be hiked in the shoulder seasons.

A single track climbs the sloping ridge bearing south to the bottom of the slope break.

A number of single tracks meet at the base of the hill.    One single track bears east, going above the heads of gullies, but going down and up two of them.

The eastern boundary of this area is the Owl Dump.    I usually follow tracks going down a ridge, bearing north.

The northern boundary is a back side of a Valleyview neighborhood.    An old double track bears west, up and over a ridge, down an gully, steeply back up the other side, then winds back to the starting point.

A few images from  the hike are shared here.    Click an image for a lightbox view and a caption.

a Google Earth view of the route

on the west to east traverse

coming down the ridge on the east side

on the trails...

I will be back to hike the Lower Rose Trails in the spring.