Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Set and streamered the One Man Relay at Jubal E. Spring. Amazing to see that, with winter just ended, the mule deer are already sprouting their antlers!

Ran out to Sometime Spring to see if it was flowing. It was but it wasn't strong so maybe another week or two or three and then that will be it until sometime next year.

It looks like a 125 tower wind farm is in the offing for a site NW of Laramie. As a Texan might say upon observing the 5000 or so gas wells dotting the DFW airport, it's a start.

Additional note: several homes were destroyed by a tornado around the Ames Monument. The monument, having been built by sturdy railroad men (and being rather sturdy itself) was undamaged.

Visiting the Ames Monument is a popular activity indulged in by many orienteers racing and training in the Laramie Range. Tradition has it that if you take your compass to the Ames Monument and touch the compass to any part of the monument as high up as you can reach, it will probably develop a bubble eventually. But you never know, and it never hurts to try.

I came oh-so-close to stepping on a baby elk today. My next step was going to end up on it.

It couldn't have been more than a few days old, especially given that it had no signs of hail damage from the storm last week. I'm not sure which of us was more startled/scared by the experience--maybe it should go down as a split decision.

Saw quite a few antelope, one lonely coyote howling for some company, a lewis carroll bird, exactly zero sub-morons, and--the best part--the first moose of the year. It was looking very gangly and ready to eat succulent water vegetations.

My gas mileage couldn't have been better.

If you don't know how the Team selection process works and give even a quick look at the Team Trials results, the natural question is: how does Leif Anderson not get picked for the WOC Team? You ask people to show up at a set place and time to lay down their very best, but in Leif's case with results better than 3 of the 5 people taken for the team, it still wasn't good enough. Once again, a flawed process yields a flawed result.

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