We finally drove out to do this on the 10th of November.
The trail starts pretty mildly.
But it starts climbing, up to a 38% grade.
Eventually you can see from the peak tops and it is a great view.
Not a loop trail at all. Just an out and back, about eight and a half miles total.
It was a nice training hike. I wasn’t as sore over all as I expected and not at all the next morning.