8th November 2007
Sinbad Country

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At the north end of Rod's Valley the trail joins the Swasey Cabin trail. This is the real Sinbad rock area.

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Giant rock pillars grow out of the ground, and tiny trees grow out of the top of them.

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This formation is directly above Swasey's Cabin, the shadows were all wrong for taking a picture of the actual cabin. The Swaseys moved to this area in the 1880s and were cowboys, Rod was one of them and named his own valley.

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Past the Swasey cabin the trail becomes narrower, steeper and rougher as it descends into Eagle Canyon

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I only made it about a quarter mile before turning round and even in that stretch I scraped a wheel on a rock with a wheel hanging off the other side of the road and bottomed out. I will return to Eagle Canyon on the CRF, it's an ancient (pre-swell), deep, dry canyon that goes under a very high bridge on I70.

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