Sometimes known as The Holy S%&T! Trail for first time riders, this is a really fun Orange County ride that will test your bike handling skills. The Holy Jim trail is a very diverse trail that has you has crossing rocky creeks, riding among ferns and other greenery, and navigating loose rocks on skinny track.  It will test your switchback skills and as well as your nerves on off-camber turns.  With an a elevation change of  2,275  feet over 5 miles it will test your legs as well on the way up.

TRAIL HISTORY: (From the Cleveland National Forest Website) If you expect that the Holy Jim Canyon is named for a pious, early preacher in the Santa Ana Mountains, you would be very wrong!  Jim Smith was a beekeeper who settled in the north fork of Trabuco Canyon in the 1870s.  It was said that: "Jim Smith was a talker...no ordinary talker... a man given to blasphemous eloquence.  When he started cussing... he could peel paint off a stove pipe."  When government surveyors first mapped the canyon, they chose to name it "Holy Jim" rather than "Cussin' Jim," since the word "cussing" was considered neither polite nor appropriate for a government publication.