Starting from one of two lower parking lots along side Deer Creek Canyon Road you begin up Grizzly Drive, but quickly turn off onto Rattlesnake Gulch Trail.  Then you start the accent up Meadowlark Trail (No bikes).  After reaching a more technical trail previously a riverbed (Plymouth Creek Trail) you climb again choosing to go to Bill Couch Mountain via the Golden Eagle Trail or Plymouth Mountain via either sides of Plymouth Mountain Trail.  Then after reaching the top of either you find your way to the opposite mountain.  Be wary of cyclists as they frequent several of these trails.

The "Shasta Picnic" is a swim-bike-mountaineer-bike-swim triathlon!