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!

The Trinity Alps Wilderness, located in northwestern California, is home to more than 600 miles of trails and encompasses more than 500 acres of land. It is the second largest wilderness area in California after having doubled in size when the 1984 California Wilderness Act was passed. That same year it was added to the Wilderness Preservation System.