Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Checked the smoke plum this morning, and it was over the western part of the valley and stretching to the NE, north of town. I decided to run in the morning thinking that if the plume moved more eastward later, I would be done and it wouldn't interfere.

Ran the Blue and Red Middle courses at Granite Planite back to back. The one glitch was that between finishing the Blue and coming into the last few controls for Red, it became increasingly obvious that shooters were in the area of those last few controls, and I really didn't want to become one of their controls to be punched. I was careful as I was getting closer to the shooters, and once I spotted them and figured out where they were shooting, I ditched the last three controls. I'd never seen anyone shooting before where they were, but it really didn't matter in the end.

By afternoon the fire had blown up again, and smoke was thick and everywhere in town, with a constant rain of fine ash. I was out biking at the end of the day, and far enough south to be in clear air, and the view looking over the valley and the source of the smoke could have been a scene straight out of The Lord of the Rings.