a real rookie's castlewood ride

[singletrackmind]

You want the orange, the red was for someone else asking about some Castlewood trails.

It sounds like you did the severely eroded loose and rocky/rooty once it goes around the sharpish bend hiking trail that starts not too far from the Lone Wolf trail and meets it up at the top. If you kept going on the biking side along the bluff you were on the lone wolf, past a cement structure begins the lone wolf downhill to the creek, which you can either cross or go right to get back to the road. The hiking side takes you down lots of wood steps, under the railroad tracks via walkable tunnel to the Stinging Nettle trail.