It didn't take long to find the effects of the flood, that's what I call a Rut!

But as if on order here comes my personal road builder

He had got there from another trail and only 100 yards beyond where he started working the road was washed out again, you can see some tyre marks where the road used to go.

Backtracking I found another trail that hooked up with the Sand Creek trail and got about another 3 miles in before the creek had swallowed the trail again, it used to come up through here, the CRF is back there in the trees in the middle of the picture.

Part of the Torrey water supply exposed, I rode on the right hand 'bank' to get past this spot, I really must replace the rear tyre, it has no knobs left and was at all sorts of different angles from the front pushing through the sand

The CRF cools its heels in Sand Creek, it looks so innocent now.

I didn't try to go up Holt Draw where Sulphur Creek comes from, when I get a new tyre on the beast I'll go back.

I wasn't ready to stop though so I decided to go and take a look at the Bentonite playground on the Velvet Ridge to the west of Sand Creek.

The Fremont River winds its way towards Torrey

More rain coming for the creeks

The trail gets up right under the cliffs which have several eagle nests in them

Shattered pieces of sandstone fall from the cliffs onto the bentonite - don't stand in one place too long!

And finally, later in the day I noticed that the ditch was full of water again so I went to look at the pipe that was washed away in the flash flood, it's been replaced with a nice shiny new one.