These are photos from the hike that Nick, Bob, and I did of the Ballantine Trail on December 22nd.
We hiked out the Pine Creek Loop to the Ballantine Trail. When we got to Boulder Flat, we turned left and hiked out to Ballantine Cabin. (I didn’t take many photos of the cabin because without the skull, it wasn’t as interesting as it used to be.) From there, we continued onward eventually ending up near a large corral. We were able to loop around back to Boulder Flat without going back to the cabin. Portions of the trail on the “loop” section were difficult to find and follow; luckily, we had joined some other hikers who had a track loaded onto a GPS.
Total distance was just over eleven miles with 2500 feet of total ascent. (We had to hike a short way back up and then down the Pine Creek Loop in order to get to 2500 feet of total ascent.)
