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Thursday Apr 20, 2017 #
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Started to bike a little bit, and almost as soon as I started, it started spitting rain. I wanted to bike, but not bad enough to want to bike in rain--leave that for the golfers, et al.
So transitioned (by which time it wasn't raining anymore) and headed up for the trails at Happy Jack, where almost as soon as I got started, it began snowing--big, heavy spring snowflakes. No worries though--as long as it wasn't raining, I was fine with it. I ended up running for a little over two hours, at a pace every so slightly above yesterday's--in other words, still really easy.
The last few times I've been up at Happy Jack running, I've looked at the forest and thought to wonder how it would look to anyone who ran on the old Happy Jack map when we first used it some years ago. It wasn't a *totally* open forest (nothing close to like TMFKABM, for example), but it was a mostly pretty nice lodgepole forest with some clearings and meadows mixed in.
Now it looks like it has been semi-tornadoed--and there are still way, way more beetle kill trees still standing than the number that have been blown down by the winds. You can still get through it, picking your way through the deadfall and looking ahead, but it would be nightmarish to re-map it now, and in another few years it will be nightmarish, period. Just flat out near impenetrable.
So transitioned (by which time it wasn't raining anymore) and headed up for the trails at Happy Jack, where almost as soon as I got started, it began snowing--big, heavy spring snowflakes. No worries though--as long as it wasn't raining, I was fine with it. I ended up running for a little over two hours, at a pace every so slightly above yesterday's--in other words, still really easy.
The last few times I've been up at Happy Jack running, I've looked at the forest and thought to wonder how it would look to anyone who ran on the old Happy Jack map when we first used it some years ago. It wasn't a *totally* open forest (nothing close to like TMFKABM, for example), but it was a mostly pretty nice lodgepole forest with some clearings and meadows mixed in.
Now it looks like it has been semi-tornadoed--and there are still way, way more beetle kill trees still standing than the number that have been blown down by the winds. You can still get through it, picking your way through the deadfall and looking ahead, but it would be nightmarish to re-map it now, and in another few years it will be nightmarish, period. Just flat out near impenetrable.