Little Naches, Mt. Clifty and Quartz mountain (part 3)

Trail 1388, Quartz Mountain to Mt. Clifty in this video.
Final leg of our trip up to Mt. Clifty.
We run across trail 1388 from Quartz Mtn. over to Mt. Clifty.
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01:29 Viewpoint
02:03 Viewpoint
02:21 Hop onto trail 1388
04:35 Possible rock field bypass?
05:00 Fear of hitting the foot peg
05:31 View of Eastern Washington
06:13 Don’t think we are in Kansas anymore
08:00 Watch your head
09:32 Exposure
09:56 Well Crap, hold my bear
10:41 Back to trail 1388
14:01 Pass the 948/1388 intersection
15:51 Hugging the uphill bank a bit to closely
17:24 Found a road
18:12 Viewpoint from road
18:57 Hit a very small tree
19:11 Check out how bushes are clipped by handlebars
19:36 Exposure
20:00 Oops, work past other riders
20:36 Start steep decent
20:10 Remove a hitch hiking branch
22:06 Check out the cool stump with Burls
23:51 Rough trail with exposure
24:24 Magnificent drop off
25:34 Exposure on both sides !
28:07 Ridicules bumps in the trail
32:21 Fun little valley crossing
32:31 Root almost takes me down
34:00 Exposure
34:38 OMG! Are you kidding me!
35:55 Slick, Rocky trail with exposure
36:25 Steep decent
37:11 Log crossing
39:50 Exposure
42:02 Intersection to Mt. Clifty
43:04 Tough root climb and scary decent
46:43 Large loose rocks on decent
47:40 Crossing a huge rock valley
47:59 The hill climb of death
49:25 Hold my beer
50:27 Exposure
52:03 Intersection
52:34 Narrow squeeze
53:12 Climb hill with lots of roots
54:09 Hit a tree with handlebar
54:41 Intersection
56:54 ** Weirdest CRASH I’ve had
(Bike didn't want to be picked up)
57:51 Start serious climb (switchbacks)
58:19 DARN, a tree splattered mud on my camera
1:00:14 No idea what happened here
1:01:00 Reached the top of Mt. Clifty,
Little Naches, September 25, 2024