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OAK WOODLANDS AND A YUCCA ALONG KENT SPRING ROAD
Continue climbing briefly through tall, shady trees before emerging on a steep
and exposed section, switchbacking up. You lose the shade but gain wonderful views
of Mounts Wrightson and Hopkins. If you have a good eye (or binoculars), you can
pick out Bog Springs Campground below. Eventually, the switchbacks end and the
trail contours around to the south and then southeast, entering shade trees again. Kent
Spring, reached 1.2 miles after Bog Springs, has a round concrete basin of dirty water.
Just before it, a seasonal trickle is cleaner.
Our trail now turns hard right, drops west-northwest into a fern-filled little valley,
and within a few yards becomes a steep, rough, and rather slippery shale-surfaced
road. Watch your step! The seasonal stream may accompany you to your right if it
was flowing just before Kent Spring. After a few hundred yards, the trail crosses
the stream bed and becomes less steep. Trees bend over and provide a lovely shaded
bower through which to continue your descent.
Soon you reach the third spring on the trail, Sylvester Spring, cached in two rect-
angular basins. The trail recrosses the stream bed and climbs briefly before dropping
to another stream, this one flowing from left to right across your route. An unsigned
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