From the top we could see fold over fold of Coast Range mountains. Then the trail descended to Eagle Gap and climbed again to views atop Eagle Mt. Beyond Eagle Mt., the trail becomes a jeep road and you can see barren-looking Pearsall Peak in the distance with the Lookout on top. But we were not going up Pearsall Peak this time. At Chetco Pass, the trail branches and descends to the Chetco River. In the Kalmiopsis you need to have a topographical map and know how to use it.
Signage here is quite minimal, and what signs there are can easily be missed.
Jeep roads branch off in various directions with no signposts at the junctions. A hiker we had talked to earlier took a wrong road and ended up bushwhacking down to the Chetco, a risky idea in a country this thick with poison oak. We passed plenty of old mining claims and equipment going down to the Chetco. There were several small streams which can probably only be counted on for water in early summer. At the mouth of Slide Creek, we reached the Chetco.