Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Pelican Bay. Warmup activities consisted of doing some more mapping at the eastern end of the map, and now a whopping .3km2 are in the bag so far this season. At this prodigious rate, BP is going to get their oil well capped before I get this new chunk of map done.

The O' was good, but the best part was running by a totally mired sub-moron truck, which had attempted one mud bog too far. I did not see any life forms or sub-life forms in the vicinity of the truck; at appeared they had abandoned ship.

On the way home, I noticed there were two wind tubes resting at the Summit Visitor's Center. For a moment looking at the tubes, my competitive juices got flowing, as I was reminded of past glories and the triumphant moment when I emerged from a culvert as the World Uphill Culvert Crawling Champion.

Two more big tubes were headed down the canyon as I was headed up.

To judge by the number of mud caked 4 wheelers driving around in the National Forest, a lot of mud bogging must have been going on today.

This run was slightly notable in that it killed off what I believe was my last Billygoat t-shirt.

Now on to the 1000 Day t-shirts!

The river is pretty high now. Probably it's flooding, except that there really isn't anything it can flood into and damage, so maybe it's a sort of tree falling in the forest with nobody to hear it kind of thing.

Low key was the order for the day.

Trails at Happy Jack are now mostly dry--or, at least, not covered in snow anymore, though there is still some snow and ice on some of the groomed ski trails. But aside from some pock-marked sections (the horsy set has already been active), running conditions were pretty decent.

Of all the things that I wasn't expecting to see that I *did* see, top-O-the-list honors has to go to an Oldsmobile hubcap, sitting in the middle of a ski trail, and not even remotely near a road. How weird is that???

Based on the amount of money I found out on the road at the airport, this was a fine 26 cent ride.

An additional note about Google Maps--it was good that the old imagery was updated with stuff less than a year old. Unfortunately, I now see that up in the national forest the new imagery is one level poorer in resolution than what was there before, and that's not good. The previous imagery was *much* more useful for O' mapping purposes than what it's been replaced by. Oh, well! : (