On a sunny early April morning I started a hike just off Rose Hill Road below the trailer park.    I climbed on an unmarked grassy double track up onto a ridge and continued uphill to the steep slope break, then contoured east going across the heads of the gullies toward Highland Drive, then I wound down a single track in a gully to the lower (north) end of the Lower Rose Area and worked my way back west, going over ridges and down more gullies for a 4.5 km loop route.

I hike this area about three times a year and I try to vary the combinations of double track and single track trails each time.    On this day, part of the route was down a single track made for mountain biking, swerving back and forth in a narrow gully.

There are a few trees on the ridges and uphill slopes, but for the most part the ridges have sagebrush grasslands.    There are trees and shrubs in the gullies, but they are fairly open too.

The whole area has silt, sand, and gravel ridges which were deposited as silt layers under the surface of a glacial lake. Erosion has since scoured the gullies across these slopes making for interesting hikes.