Ready the dog and I headed up to Yreka yesterday for our long run...15 miles on the Humbug Trail, which is a lot of climb (four miles up to the summit), then a very short level section, then a lot of descent. Then we turned around and came back. The weather was completely awesome. The sky was very dark and forboding (in Arkansas, I would be worried about tornadoes), but as the hours went by, we were treated to everything from light sprinkles to warm sunshine to hefty winds on the ridges, and a beautiful rainbow. Almost all the snow is melted, there are pretty yellow flowers (the first of the year) bravely showing up on the warmer slopes, and we even disturbed a very noisy eagle. Then, we decided that we had to get a cheeseburger for our good effort. He got all the fries and half my burger.
Then we went home and slept the sleep of the REALLY tired.
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10 hours ago
Laura, this sounds wonderful. Your mountains get spring so much sooner than ours!
ReplyDeleteA four-mile ascent ... that is impressive!
I'm going to send Walter for a visit. He would be in heaven, even without the fries.
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