Headed up to the trails below Snowbasin tonight. A friend of mine has been running a new trail they put in off of the overlook trail that heads out to a ridge above Pineview and drops back down to Maples trail. He usually starts at Snowbasin and runs the 8 mile loop. I didn't want to drive all the way up so I started at Wheeler Canyon trail at Pineview reservior and ran up to Snowbasin to meet him. We ran the to the top of the loop and up an unfinished spur trail that headed toward Salamander Peak. We started the downhill and it went on forever, switchbacking back and forth at a super low grade, kinda rolling grade back down to the Maples trail. The trail was freshly cut less than a year ago, so it was a littel rough here and there, but really smooth overall. Very beautiful, all the way through.
We hit Maples and I headed down toward Ice Box and Wheeler Canyon. It was already after 9 PM, and it got dark quick with the cloud cover. By the time I was half way down Ice Box I was wishing I had brought a light.
By the time I got to the car I was in the deepest bonk of my life I think. Don't now exactly what brought it on other than the run was too long for my recovery and I didn't bring enough water and no salt and it was really hot and super humid. By the time I got home, I was shaking like I was hypothermic, head was spinning, heart rate and respiration high. Not good. I drank water, took a hot shower, put on a hoody and climbed in bed for a bit, nothing would stop the shivers. Finally I got up and downed a couple of S caps and some Ginerale and with in 20 minutes felt much better. Really strainge, never experienced that before.
Guessing the run was about 13 miles and 2500-3000 vert. Overall Gorgeous, and I felt great for the first 9 to 10 miles. | 