Creekside Trail starts out with a very short segment that's flat and easy. You'll notice things starting to deteriorate quickly after this though, and the trail will disappear into the rocky creek bed before you know it. From here to China Hole, you'll be on Creekside Trail, which follows the creek bed. The continuity of the trail is only nominal, though. In practice, what you'll find is a brief chain of short goat paths that bypass certain spots of the creek bed only a few feet higher up on the right-hand hillside, intermixed with a barely traceable path along the side of the creek bed that squeezes through large sets of boulders in a couple of spots. These are essentially all hike-a-bike segments, if not enough to require you to shoulder your bike completely.