Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Killer Bee Test Loop--conditions were wet and heavy (relatively) owing to summertime lushness of the grasses and flowers, which had been thoroughly soggified by an intense thunderstorm that passed through the area right as I was arriving. There were several very close lighting strikes to admire!

Good thing this wasn't a stop-and-go type of a workout, because the mosquitoes were waiting and very willing, in battalion size strength. Mosquito season is the one time I don't mind having the sub-moron around, because you have to figure when they race around in their sub-moron vehicles, they must kill a fair amount of mosquitoes.

Sometimes the legs have it, and sometimes they don't, and today they didn't.

The eyes, on the other hand, were doing good and picked up the slack by spotting 3 moose on a single run! (one mama moose with two moosettes)

Dale Creek, course setting for the Laramie Daze One Cowboy Relay.

Dale Creek had its inaugural use as the venue for the 1998 US Night Orienteering Championships, wherein a number of intrepid night orienteers learned a certain, immutable truth about beaver ponds, which is while they are not usually a good route choice in daylight, at night they are a really, really bad idea. Probably an English prof would look at this sentence and say it was a really, really bad idea, too.

This coming Laramie Daze will be the first time Dale Creek has been used since that dazzling evening.

C • Dale Creek 13

Pitcher Hill; noticably humid for the area, due to cool, moist conditions yesterday followed by sun today. Saw a pair of owls which flew up out of some sage, and also a small herd of cows. The cows did not attempt a violent attack, possibly because of the faux black belt I was wearing to make me look like a skilled martials arts cow fighter.

C • Watch out... 3

trails, cool, overcast with occasional fog rolling through