Tired run up Ben Lomond. Legs felt soggy right of the bat. As soon as I crossed the road and started up the trail I could feel I was dragging today. Made it up to where it flattens out on the West side and it started to sprinkle a little rain, looked West and it looked ok, should have looked southwest! By the time I hit the open meadow just before the saddle heading to the peak, Boom! thunder, wind, rain, lots of lightening! I stopped walked down off the backside a little ways to get off the high ridge and tried to get out of the wind. Didn't rain long, but the lightening stuck around for a while. Glad I wasn't on the Lewis Peak side because it looked much worse a little further south.
After things seemed to calm down I made my way back down, a little bummed about not getting to the peak, but at that point I was soaked, cold, and it was getting too late to keep going up. I ran easy going down, getting more soaked by the many tree branches hanging into the trail dripping wet. I need to take some hand trimmers up next time to clip the worst of them. Spent a few minutes sitting on a rock watching the light show as the storm moved over Powder Mountain. Pretty sweet double rainbow with sheets of rain and lightening striking behind them, wish I'd had the camera.
Up to saddle 1:11, RT 2:13 with stop., 11 miles or so, 2400 vert or so? Need to get the Garmin fixed (or replaced). | 