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Sunday Dec 25, 2016 #
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With the forecast calling for snow, my plan had been to let the snow arrive, and then go skiing for several hours. The snow arrived on schedule, and I prepared to go skiing. The plan then fell apart, due to wind arriving after the snow arrived, and thoroughly mucking up most of the roads in SE Wyoming.
It looked like I might be able to drive over to the Snowies, as the roads were open, with only the typical advisories about blowing snow and such. However, by the time I was out in the prairie and about a mile out of town, I decided the better part of valor was to turn around and give up on the idea of skiing.
Therefore I settled on running from home up the west slope of the Laramie Range. Going up was no problem; I knew that when I turned around I would have to be face the wind, and the first half of the way down was okay, too. From that point, however, the wind speed started increasing, and by the last 20 minutes or so the wind was edging over into the brutal range. It felt good to get back home!
It looked like I might be able to drive over to the Snowies, as the roads were open, with only the typical advisories about blowing snow and such. However, by the time I was out in the prairie and about a mile out of town, I decided the better part of valor was to turn around and give up on the idea of skiing.
Therefore I settled on running from home up the west slope of the Laramie Range. Going up was no problem; I knew that when I turned around I would have to be face the wind, and the first half of the way down was okay, too. From that point, however, the wind speed started increasing, and by the last 20 minutes or so the wind was edging over into the brutal range. It felt good to get back home!