The trail heads down through meadows and past this viewpoint from which we get a good view of Pyramid. A couple of hundred feet further, the trail goes around the end of the ridge and drops via a series of switchbacks into a small basin with a couple of rustic campsites near a bubbling brook.

After a break in the shade, we cross the creek and push on up a slight grade and then a long traverse of a wooded basin. After the tread levels out and then begins to climb, we come to a sharp switchback and soon to a shoulder of a ridge to the signed junction with the Butte Cr Trail.

Initially the Butte Cr Trail traverses a shoulder of Crow Mountain. At first the tread is visible but it becomes intermittant and vague the further one goes from the junction with the Pyramid trail. Eventually all trace of the tread is lost in the grassy slopes. The map shows the trail going down the crest of the ridge so we make our way down until we pick up the tread again. At the end of the ridge, we follow the trail over the edge.

It is obvious the the trail was once a sheep driveway because it is very wide and it drops very steeply. So steeply in fact that it is hard to go down and the strain on one's ankles and descent muscles is extreme.