Paul R
Adventurer
Trails:
Temple Fork, Old Ephraim’s Grave, Dip Hollow, Left Hand Fork
Map:
After being totally sick of school (calc and stats at the same time) a friend and I decided to take off for the afternoon for a good drive in the cache county backcountry. So we grabbed a sandwich and stopped by the forest service station to make sure we wouldn’t hit too much snow, and then we drove up Logan Canyon. We pulled off at Temple Fork and aired down. After starting down the trail and narrowly dodging a ranger truck that was cruising down the road, we passed through fields filled with wild flowers and great overlooks of the nearby mountains. We made our way towards Old Ephraim’s Grave passing a moose in one of the multiple ponds, and another bull in the middle of the road. We checked out a couple of the spur roads that went off to faint four wheeler tracks and quickly ended in dead ends.
At Old Ephraim’s grave the weather was perfect beautiful blue skies and a perfect mountain breeze to cool us all down. There are many legends about Old Ephraim, but the jist of it is he was a grizzly bear that stood at 11 feet and liked to roam around eating livestock until Frank Clark tracked it down and shot it in August of 1923, his skull was on display in the Smithsonian for a while but now resides at USU’s campus, maybe I’ll try and snap a pic of it at some point. A scout troop later put up a monument there that you can drive to. The guide books that I read said the road was fairly difficult and rutted out, but the way we went I didn’t see anywhere that a stock SUV couldn’t make it to so I assume the trails have been fixed and well maintained in the past few years although it was totally dry and perfect conditions the day we went.
From the grave we started towards right hand fork where we were going to go back to US-89 (Logan Canyon), but ended up deciding to make a bigger loop and link it to Blacksmith Canyon. We came across a spur road called Boulder Mountain Road which was only about 2 miles long but ended at a great overlook of the surrounding hills.
Temple Fork, Old Ephraim’s Grave, Dip Hollow, Left Hand Fork
Map:
After being totally sick of school (calc and stats at the same time) a friend and I decided to take off for the afternoon for a good drive in the cache county backcountry. So we grabbed a sandwich and stopped by the forest service station to make sure we wouldn’t hit too much snow, and then we drove up Logan Canyon. We pulled off at Temple Fork and aired down. After starting down the trail and narrowly dodging a ranger truck that was cruising down the road, we passed through fields filled with wild flowers and great overlooks of the nearby mountains. We made our way towards Old Ephraim’s Grave passing a moose in one of the multiple ponds, and another bull in the middle of the road. We checked out a couple of the spur roads that went off to faint four wheeler tracks and quickly ended in dead ends.
At Old Ephraim’s grave the weather was perfect beautiful blue skies and a perfect mountain breeze to cool us all down. There are many legends about Old Ephraim, but the jist of it is he was a grizzly bear that stood at 11 feet and liked to roam around eating livestock until Frank Clark tracked it down and shot it in August of 1923, his skull was on display in the Smithsonian for a while but now resides at USU’s campus, maybe I’ll try and snap a pic of it at some point. A scout troop later put up a monument there that you can drive to. The guide books that I read said the road was fairly difficult and rutted out, but the way we went I didn’t see anywhere that a stock SUV couldn’t make it to so I assume the trails have been fixed and well maintained in the past few years although it was totally dry and perfect conditions the day we went.
From the grave we started towards right hand fork where we were going to go back to US-89 (Logan Canyon), but ended up deciding to make a bigger loop and link it to Blacksmith Canyon. We came across a spur road called Boulder Mountain Road which was only about 2 miles long but ended at a great overlook of the surrounding hills.
Last edited:
