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Lower Rose Hike

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On a warm mid-May morning I hiked a route in the Lower Rose area, a grassland-benchland of gullies and ridges above Valleyview and below the communities of Rose Hill and West Juniper.     there are several access points from Valleyview and from Rose Hill Road.    Informal trails and tracks are used by hikers, dog-walkers, and mountain bikers.    This is an area I hike 2-3 … Continue reading →

Lower Rose Ramble

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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 … Continue reading →