At the north end of Rod's Valley the trail joins the Swasey Cabin trail. This is the real Sinbad rock area.
Giant rock pillars grow out of the ground, and tiny trees grow out of the top of them.
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.
Past the Swasey cabin the trail becomes narrower, steeper and rougher as it descends into Eagle Canyon
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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