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Monday Jun 19, 2017 #
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Ran at Happy Jack and checked out the snowfield again--still there, and it looks like it could last another 2 days, so it will make it to astronomical summer. Mosquitoes are definitely going to be there to greet the solstice; they were there today to greet me.
A great deal of flagging appeared a few weeks back, indicating incipient (mountain biking) trail work. One straight uphill section leading to the snowfield and which I sometimes use for hill work was flagged for a major s-curving re-route, and it looks like the re-route was just completed. The re-route is enough longer than the piece it replaced (which was part of the Silent Trails race course) that the old records for Silent Trails will probably never be broken.
The trails are now very dry and dusty and are already approximating late summer conditions; this time last year, in contrast, some of these same trails still had trickles of water running down them from late winter snow melt.
Biking by the river, I could see that the river levels are falling quickly now. It crested a few days (from spring snow melt) and is now down at least 2 1/2'.
A great deal of flagging appeared a few weeks back, indicating incipient (mountain biking) trail work. One straight uphill section leading to the snowfield and which I sometimes use for hill work was flagged for a major s-curving re-route, and it looks like the re-route was just completed. The re-route is enough longer than the piece it replaced (which was part of the Silent Trails race course) that the old records for Silent Trails will probably never be broken.
The trails are now very dry and dusty and are already approximating late summer conditions; this time last year, in contrast, some of these same trails still had trickles of water running down them from late winter snow melt.
Biking by the river, I could see that the river levels are falling quickly now. It crested a few days (from spring snow melt) and is now down at least 2 1/2'.