Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Quite a few wind tower tubes were resting over in the Petro station parking lot.

Warmest day of the year so far. It's already 79, and so it's likely to go 80--which qualifies as summer around here. I'm pretty sure that last summer it never even made it to 90.

Very nice biking weather, with plenty of fresh air blowing up from the south.

I was not expecting to ride up on a (red) fox trotting down one of the neighborhood streets in broad daylight, but there it was, looking completely unconcerned about anything.

Killer Bee test loop; new PB for the year. It probably helped a little that the snow is now longer waist deep in the drifts. In fact, there was almost no snow left on the loop itself, though many of the traditionally moist areas were quite wet and sloppy. Also there has been some winter blowdown that should probably be addressed with some diligence and a crosscut saw.

Several times over the past few days--and today included--massive bases for wind towers have been rolling down the hill on I-80 as I have been rolling up, hinting that construction activity on some new wind farm west of Laramie is underway. That'll show the wind, which has been frenetic for nearly all of the past week! ; )

Also rolling along, and rolling into the national forest, were many, many camper trailers, no doubt getting an early start on Memorial Day Weekend, which is the traditional start to the summer camping season. The forest will be jam packed this weekend, and maybe in extra abundance since the forecast does not seem to offer any promise of blizzard snows, though the chance of some devastating hail storm can not be ruled out.

Nothing like a pleasant snowstorm on May 24; the budding tulips sticking out of the new snow look so fine!