112 Bear Mountain Loop
Today the weather forecasters are calling this 'the pick day’ of the week for outdoor activities with highs near 70° before more snow arrives later in the week. I’ll head up to Drury Mincy and do some nearby hiking while I have the chance (for more at Mincy C.A. see: 111 Bee Creek & Cornell Road ). Off Gunnison Road, I head up the steep gravel road into Mincy Conservation Area, about half a mile to the parking/trailhead area on the south side of the road. This is ‘Bear Mountain Trailhead’ with parking for four or five vehicles. Bear Mountain Trail with white blaze Bear Mountain Trail heads out south the woods then downhill pretty quick, the trail is easy to follow with white blazes stating, ‘hiking trail’. The steep trail has lots of small loose rock, soon arriving at what I’m assuming is Bear Cave shown on the very ‘basic’ Conservation Area map. From here standing on the trail it doesn’t look like much, just a small sinkhole with a little pitch-black open