Cheese Rock and Split Rock Loop

We drove to Teanaway Community Forest, parking at the end of the West Fork Teanaway Road to hike to Cheese Rock and Split Rock making a loop out of some of the many trails here, including a side trail to Cheese Rock. Our route was 5.5 miles with 700 ft of overal gain. The snow levels are very low, with at least half of our route snow free. The first part of the trail had the most snow/ice coverage, starting with the bridge over the Teanaway River

View of Cheese Rock

Cloudy views at Cheese Rock

A short ways down the trail were a cluster of 4 large boulders, some had interesting columns, cracks and/or holes

View of distant snowy peaks from along the trail

Large boulder near Split Rock

Views of Split Rock from various angles

As we continued along the trail we had some views through the trees, the rock shelf near Cheese Rock

snowy enchantment peaks

zoom of a cloudy Mt Stuart and other Enchantment Peaks

Looking down on the Teanaway River

Cheese Rock

For my second hike today, I drove down the West Fork Teanaway Road just past the Teanaway Campground to hike up to Cheese Rock along closed forest roads. My route was 3.3 miles round trip with 330 ft of overall gain.

View of the Teanaway River from the bridge over it.

I met a hiker taking his llamas out for a stroll.

Lots of lupine in bloom, and

there were still some balsamroot in bloom.

View of Mount Stuart through the trees as I was walking up the road towards Cheese Rock.

View of Cheese Rock from below

View of Cheese Rock from the other side

part of the rock out cropping near Cheese Rock, with a view of Mount Stuart

View further along the rock out cropping

partial zoom

zoom of Mount Stuart

Another hiker at Cheese Rock told me about a boot track to some near by huge boulders about 100-200 yards off the road.

This boulder was so large I need to use the pano mode to get the height of the boulder in the photo

more huge boulders

some of the wildflowers seen along the trail today: