Kind of a fun but very crazy run this morning. I went up the Broken Mesa trail to the road then up the road to where it cuts over to the Icehouse trail and back down it to make the loop in 3:57. I started at 5 a.m sharp and had the head lamp on.... those things are way over rated. It took 1:05 to do the first 6 miles in the dark- lots of uphill and plenty of rocks. At this point I ws sick of messing with the head lamp and it was kind of twilighty enough to see so I left it at the junction in the trails where I picked it up later. This is a trail at best, not a dirt road or a 4-wheeler path. You can go down just about anywhere but somehow today I didn't. Lots of climbing basically 14 miles of it up to where I turned back on the Icehouse trail. In this area I got a little off target and had to go cross country for a couple miles until I ran into the road again. I turned off the road too soon and ended up in some private property. But I knew the general direction of where the Icehouse starts so I just made my own trial over and found it. It's been about 2 months since I was last up on the mesa and it's sure looks different now. Lots of grass and pretty flowers. Green all over. In fact when I was coming down the Icehouse trail I kept struggling to stay on it becasue of all then new vegitation- plus it's really old and hardly never used. I took my hydration pack by Nathen sports and it works pretty good. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do for water during Squaw... Glad to get a good run in this morning. I love watching the sun come up out on a run in the desert.
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