Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Rode by UW's newest (it just got underway) capital construction project, located at the extreme NW corner of campus. While that would be an ideal location for a massive wind shield, I don't think that's what is going to go up. Doubt it will be a facility for orphan pigs either.

C • Reviews of milk 6

Trails; ran most of The Hilly One. Another really nice day out with a fair amount of haze. Maybe from forest fires in locales other than California? Or maybe it's just hazy on principle.

Multiple truck wrecks on I-80 between Laramie and Cheyenne closed the interstate in both directions, though luckily the road was open as far as the Summit Exit, so I could drive up top. Something weird must have been going on to have multiple truck wrecks along the same stretch of highway, at about the same time, and for them to have been bad enough that the highway was closed for a good many hours.

I sure hope it didn't involve turkeys from Cherry Hill, NJ.

Seemed like a good idea to take the day easy, even though the day itself was spectacular--a perfect Fall day from start to finish. Spent some time also working on the Happy Jack map, with today's efforts devoted to a ridge line and the front facing slope, which is steeper than K2 and twice as rocky; it will never get used for any O', I would bet! Consequently, the pressure on the mapper to "get it right" was somewhat low.

C • Ahhh 1

O-vals at Pelican Bay; did this in the form of running route segments in a route analysis of a complex leg from the 2004 TT.

C • Biking and O-ing 6

Pelican Bay.

Pelican Bay.

10:30 RMT, Laramie WY--Heavy blizzarding action has set in. Rumbles off to the west, which would indicate approaching thunderstorms in most locales, in this area hint instead of cold threats of renewed glacial activity, with the credible possibility several snow fences--the only remaining line of defense between the glaciers and I-80--will be overwhelmed in short order. The glacier fighters have been caught off guard, and urgent pleas have gone out to coal fired power facilities around the world to increase their soot emissions immediately.

Ran trails up at Happy Jack, though really it was more running in 4-6" of fresh snow than anything. It's always fun to get out in the first snow of the season. And--mercy!--what a sunset!!! The western sky was full of purples, oranges, corals, and red fire red--plus a solitary, very thin man crescent moon that even Dylan would have admired. A real treat to be out on a day like this!

The view late this afternoon from the Tie City Corral, looking out towards Antenna Hill:

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