Date Hiked: October 6, 2019
General Condition: Wilderness Freeway (Heavily used and well maintained)
After many years and many work trips, the Horsepasture Trail is a freeway from end to end. There might remain a few sections with slumping tread, or a wayward piece of ceanothus leaning into the trail. But the work trips from Tassajara Creek and the work trips from Tassasjara Road have finally connected.
There was water in Tassajara Creek, though it was easy to rock hop across. There was water in the creek about a mile up from Tassajara Creek, in several locations. There was water in Quail Spring about halfway along the contour section before the Tassajara Cutoff. And water near the Horsepasture where Woodwardia ferns grow.