Training Log Archive: bl

Across from Foothills PT after my session. Horseshoe bight, a quiet pm mostly filled in by crickets and with absence of vehicles etc. Saw large patches of big clovers & spent 10' on my watch looking for a 4 leaf, no luck. Maybe the wrong 'brand'. Started Strava late.

Got a bunch of back manipulation/massage. Will see what tomorrow brings.

Short walk with Willow on lakefront. NW wind came up overnight & it was clear & bright.

Home via 116, 125 (Ripton, Breadloaf, ski bowl), 100, 107 to 89. Stopped in New London (NLH & Pleasant Lake).

Thought I'd do more at home but too long a day of driving etc.

Jenn, Beth, myself dog walking 3 dogs, on & off drizzle.

From North Ave to the bike path, along it to Leddy Park and to Poirier thru the mall etc. Had Willow on a leash. Mild day, sunny at home, then clouds that looked so much like rain, then sun and finally more cloud.

Obligatory lakefront

Walk around the perimeter of Winant Hill, perfect early fall afternoon, mostly green leaves though. Penacook Lake

Walker TF to see what goes with a trail & local landowner. Colors coming, warm for the most part, clouding up though and light rain as I finished.

Second PT appointment today. It featured more directed exercises that very well could be effective. Back was quite stiff/sore after the plane flights and longish car drives from SLC to Jackson & back.

Drove to Flat Creek trail head with Bruce & Beth. Part of the drive was holding-ones-breath & close one's eyes from the front seat passenger side. The NFS trail was up and down. I wasn’t the least bit interested in the ups being tired from the day before. We passed Flat Creek Ranch and accessed Flat Creek Lake. On the return, I opted for the “private” road’s flatness. A gorgeous valley and lake, the latter evidently made by a man-made dam.

No GPS signal at all which I find puzzling.

Return. The 315 never held a fix after 0.75 mi.
A range for all seasons.

C • Gorgeous! 3

Goodwin Lake hike in Gros Ventre range. I’d hoped to get to the ski cabin about a mile more and a bit higher with some easy bush wacking but events contrived and I did not. A heavy frost this morn but when I started around 9:45 it was quite nice in the sun. First issue was having to park a mile from the trail head due to road erosion. My little rental Kia wasn’t up to such ruts - the same with at least 4 other cars, a mile away and maybe 400’ below.

The hike, starting at 8100’ was about 3 miles each way with the unexpected mile added on. I’d budgeted 6 miles and 1400’ climb and was caught offguard. I still made good progress for me and made Goodwin Lake in about 2.5 hrs and 4 miles. The cabin was further on and then required leaving the trail. I walked the wrong way around the lake, dealing with some tiring scree and losing time finding the trail I needed. There were two fly fisherman there but they could not help with the cabin. But I just wasn’t thinking because I had the info on my phone, a small section of photographed USGS. I got on the correct trail and sat down for some food/drink for energy. My sitting there in the shade frightened a woman on her way to Jackson Peak. In retrospect, I wish I’d followed her for a boost to the point where I had to leave the trail. I was too low on energy, not inclined to climb nor bushwhack. I had 1pm as the time to be headed back and it was around 12:20.

Later, I thought to estimate distance to go by Goodwin Lake lengths - and there were about 5-6 to get to the cabin. I started descending and actually turned back once and went up. But something said I was headed into trouble. On the way down, I was kicking myself. I saw more hikers, the Bridger-Teton NF wasn’t as “lonely” and I’d pushed aside bears for the most part though I had repellent.

Lovely views, a good challenge but sad about the cabin. It was 50 years since I was first there. In the fall of ’69 (in my way to my Navy assignment in the Pacific), I stopped at JH and hiked to the cabin in October, just finding it as dark fell. It snowed that night and the cabin was a necessity. My college roommate Bruce and & passed thru Jackson Hole summer ’68 after graduation. He never left. Some 20 years ago, Beth and I hiked to the cabin and spent the night in the meadow in front. The cabin was dark and dingy and populated with mice. The meadow was buggy in high summer.

I so wanted to see it again. Next time.

Ferry across Jenny Lake, walk back with Beth, Bruce and Peggy. Some thunder/rain at Hidden Falls, the rest mostly in sun. I expected the trail to be at lake shore but it was much more interesting, up and down, great views. First did this 50 years ago.

Forgot the 315 and didn't trust the cell battery with Strava's depleting photo opportunity. Might come up with Bruce's app's gpx but not straightforward as I'd have liked.

Mission accomplished in roundabout fashion, ferry ride excluded. A simple gpx file was about impossible to find on MapMyRide.

Tiring given altitude change and lack of stamina.

Hike in Ditch Creek drainage to top of a small knoll for great views of Teton Valley & range. Hot, windy, dry. Paris and the three of us.

With Willow from brush dump.
Dune buggy making dunes.

Monday's initial PT gave me some specific exercises to do plus the small roller and 2 tennis balls in a tube sock to do them with.

Went to the boat yesterday for a look-see (bilge/run engine). Only 1 night aboard in a 30 span, 8/23-9/10 and the 10+ now in the making. Didn't sleep well with wind and rain and an unfamiliar mooring at around-the-corner Owl's Head. Driving home, I stopped at exit 10 on 101, parked in the Exeter TF lot, pleasantly shaded, for a nap. I was there a # of times last winter and early spring for O training. I looked at the nearby green wall, and closed my tired eyes, an opportunity unexplored.

First day PT with specific attention to what's wrong whereas pilates was
not focused.

Had to go somewhere refreshing today, a new direction. Also fairly sore from yesterday. Willow and I drove to pretty Rumney then to Dorcester to see Green Woodlands Foundation. Then on to Canaan, Orange, Grafton, Danbury, Andover, Salisbury - some of which I'd never seen. Lots of junk collecting-retaining in these small, rural towns.

Stopped at roadside Litchfield Cemetery on Rte 4 for lunch.
Granite State

left hand 3 most graves: middle Johnathan Braley (d. 1904, 92 yrs); to right his first wife Chloe (d. 1850, 34 yrs); and to left his second wife, name and yr of death unintelligible but died at 75 yrs. History long buried wherever one turns. A large tree looks over.

Sharing lunch

UNO camping weekend. Went for Saturday, day and also the night O.
Fun to see some very old friends.

Brown went OK. Pretty much directly to the flags. Some uncertainty approaching 5,6,7 but kept on going and the flag was there in each case. It was a long haul around the west end of the pond for 6 and more green than the map indicated.
#8, went to the builder group first, initially seeing just one boulder. Distracted or helped by 2 women just ahead of me there.

Pauses or lack of certainty might have added to a minute lost total.

Brown

Garmin out to lunch for time being for whatever reason.

Nite O, short version, 2.8k, 1/5 map. Always a light or an identifiable person all the way to just before 6. There were 2-3 lady Scandanavians talking but couldn’t understand. 1-4 was pretty much follow whomever was ahead but keep in touch with terrain as well.

Shortly after leaving 4, came upon the ride which was a good handrail for
some distance. There were the Scandinavian women just ahead and another passed. They went further on the ride than I had in mind. I saw a path/ride as a stone wall due to a boulder's being mapped right on it in a "strategic" place. Of course, I never spotted the non-existent wall. Meanwhile there were 4 lights ahead of me on the ride. They went and went and I was kicking myself for abandoning my plan. But then I came to the only stream (and they were quite beyond it), figured I had to be there and entered the woods into what proved to be a logged area about as mapped. There was a big knoll in the open but mapped more centrally. This one appeared be on the very edge of the woods, so low confidence. But a light was coming my way, which was Nancy. I asked her if she’d seen 5. She said words to the effect of 'just ahead' - which it was.

5>6 got mixed up by the invisible “wall” again. Saw Alar and Ernst and ?. Even asked them if they’d seen it. Again lost contact with the map on the NE going ride I'd been on, going opposite direction, but there was a light ahead, going my way. Probably Nancy. Caught up around a swampy area but couldn’t pinpoint it. I was always moving S by then and finally hit the road which I’d been considering doing. It was hard to relocate on the road. Nancy paused, dropped behind. I finally said “must be here” tho no definite point - just a wiggle in the road, and its beginning to descend. Contours went up (promising), mapped was a logged clearing which I couldn’t initially see. But once up, I noted some trees cut to ground. Eventually noted a very promising clearing in size and shape. Went on, land dropped and the point showed in my light a long distance away. Phew.

7 was S to road, up a very steep embankment where the stream entered a conduit and utilized some roadside boulders I’d seen earlier in the day as AP.

8 was straight to the Vampire awards noise and light.

Probably 5-7' lost hesitating and fumbling but not hopelessly.

Then home, left around 9:30. I had to check on Willow and granddaughter, Beth in CA.

Night O

Brown - Splits

Nite O short - Splits

With Willow at BHS around 4:30, alive with kids in all fall sports activities.

Hammond NP late pm with Willow, happy as a clam. Took the trail at the end of the field and went down into forest. Rain on & off, fairly hard at one point. Stayed in the woods to keep drier. Sun shining brightly by the end.

After work - went to SPS to XC trail system, into the woods on the path, along it and back thru the woods to SFR and the car. Wearing work clothes but it worked.

Walk with Willow, raining pretty hard after we started. A regular sized umbrella was too small. A gray, dreary Labor Day.

So called training but a big step of sorts. Haven't used the (2 person) kayak for reasons of size and my back & Beth's shoulder and earlier no roof rack for the higher car --- and other manufactured excuses.

Went to NHTI which has a nice boat ramp. We had Willow along which seemed tenuous (esp just before when she was running & bouncing by the ramp) but she did ok tho not sure I care to repeat. She needed to be quite still so as to not set up a 'tip oscillation'. Stayed near shore in the event. The area was conservation so the river's edge and woods behind were most attractive. Successful outing even if short.