Like the canyon

AM: Nice dry shirt hike up Malan's.  Felt great to not run a step of the up. 41 minutes up, 1:04 RT. Easy pace.

PM: Hour or so in the rain, easy.

About 11 miles and 3200 vert.

AM: 5 miles cruiser BST loop. Easy pace

PM: Indian out-n-back a bit beyond the shed with a BST waterfall loop tacked on.  Moderate pace, pushed a bit going up last part of Indian.  Strange animal encounters continue, including: five white tail deer (which is odd in itself) bounding over Indian trail in front of me, more rattlesnakes, a pitch black no light  face to face with a deer less than a 1/4 mile from the car.

13 miles, 3100 vert.

PM: Tired legged Snowbasin 13.1 loop. Lovely miles and miles of single track. Started slow but rallied mid run for a nice solid tempo run. Felt slow but finished in 1:50.05, within seconds of a PR.  Managed a 6:25 last mile down Wheeler which was a bit kamakazi for me. 

13.0 miles, 2100 vert, 

Just Malan's...Took my 12 year old and we power hiked at a good clip.  He did great, kept up and no complaining, even hung on the run down. One of the best alpenglow sunset displays I've ever seen from the peak, even included a double rainbow.  Added a little loop to get 5  miles or so.

5 miles

2300 vert.

Been wanting to get up and do this one again since I first ran it last year. I'm still calling it the best route in our local hills.  Has a bit of it all, sweet mellow single track, brutal climbs, some off trail scrambling, ridge running, lots of peaks and a big 5000 foot drop back to the car. 

I was beat going in, and was prepared to turn around at any point if I wasn't feeling it. The first 10 miles climb almost 5000 feet to the top of Mt Allen, and it was slow and painful on heavy legs.  I did run (with ample shuffling) every step to the peak again, and comparing to last year's Garmin data, I guess I PR'ed by less than a minute, wouldn't have guessed that at all. 

Pretty much that's where all comparison's ended.  The last half was a struggle, I was shot! Death marched and shuffled the last 5 miles, "Running" down Wheeler's slower than I ran up. Ha! looking forward to a few very easy daze!

Pics from last year:

Been wanting to get up and do this one again since I first ran it last year. I'm still calling it the best route in our local hills.  Has a bit of it all, sweet mellow single track, brutal climbs, some off trail scrambling, ridge running, lots of peaks and a big 5000 foot drop back to the car. 

I was beat going in, and was prepared to turn around at any point if I wasn't feeling it. The first 10 miles climb almost 5000 feet to the top of Mt Allen, and it was slow and painful on heavy legs.  I did run (with ample shuffling) every step to the peak again, and comparing to last year's Garmin data, I guess I PR'ed by less than a minute, wouldn't have guessed that at all. 

Pretty much that's where all comparison's ended.  The last half was a struggle, I was shot! Death marched and shuffled the last 5 miles, "Running" down Wheeler's slower than I ran up. Ha! looking forward to a few very easy daze!

Run stats: 22.5 miles, 5900 vert

Week: 17,000 vert, 71 miles

Pics from last year:

Ridge section starts on rocky peak on the right (Mt Allen) and follows the skyline over all the high points to the peak on the far left.

Mt Ogden on left and Allen on right on the way up.