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The trail starts off wide and extremely bike-friendly.The first clearing after getting on the Bluerock Trail - it's worth taking a bike even just this far IMHO. From here the trail drops down to Bluerock CreekThe trail is muddy and steep down to the creek.Bluerock Creek is fairly benign, which is probably why there's no bridge here anymore.After working my way up several hundred vertical meters on the south ridge of Bluerock, I was greeted by wonderful morning views like this.A great trail to follow on the ridge.A campsite along the ridge.Daffern mentions this glade with flowers and she's right! There's a ton of them growing here.The end of the Bluerock hiking trail. From here you can follow the trail to the right and loop to trails around Gorge Creek.Lovely alpine flowers are out in full bloom everywhere on this approach hike.Looking back along the approach ridge coming from the left, with Mount Burns at right.It's a bit of a scree grunt up Ram Mountain.Excellent views off the climb up to the summit of Ram Mountain - including Mount Ware at center left.Looking ahead to Bluerock from Ram Mountain. Burns at left. You can see the cliffband that is a PITA to navigate around on the leftThe break through the cliffs is bone-dry!Approaching the crux.It's starting to feel like Devil's Head.It's not horribly difficult or exposed but for people more used to easy scrambling or hiking, I think this will pose a challengeLooking back over Ram Mountain from near the bottom of the crux.This is the crux. When there's snow covering it, it's fairly benign, but otherwise it's an awkward flaring crack of about 4-5 feet tall
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