Only had time for 64 minutes this morning, so decided to explore the Poison Creek trail west of town. Crossed the river where we saw the 7 skunks on Friday, turned off the highway and got on the dirt road with cattle guards every couple miles. The road forks after about 4 minutes, and AnnMarie had already been running on the same road this morning, and said she stayed right when the road forked and she made it to a large outbuilding a couple miles up the road. I decided to take the left fork and see where it went. Gradual climb up a canyon, hills covered with sage and juniper. Have not seen one vehicle this morning, and I can count on two hands the vehicles I've seen the entire time running in Cokeville. Anyhow, didn't expect to see any vehicles on this "road", kept heading east until 27 minutes into the run, where a fence blocked the road and enclosed a rather large herd of noisy bovine on the other side. Didn't figure to see any bulls in the group, but didn't exactly want to recreate my own version of Pamplona, Cokeville-style, so I turned around and took the same fork AnnMarie took earlier. Turned around at 43 minutes and decided to blow out a little carbon on the way home. Got into a nice rthythm, not sure of the pace but estimate it to be around 5:35 ish or so. Made it home in about 63 minutes, just in time to shower and walk to Church. Amazes me that in a small community, people will still drive less than a mile for anything. We were definitely in the minority as far as walkers. Oh well, I prefer it that way. Drove back to North Ogden for a few days, will be headed back up there Wednesday or Thursday. | 