Long Trail Bike/Hike/Run - Rode the bike from the house out to Mendon and up to the trailhead at Deep Canyon (Wellsvilles) - 51 mins 1000' vert Left the bike at the empty trailhead headed up the canyon. I did some running, but mostly hiking up the 3 miles and 2700 feet to the saddle (first sweet view of both cache valley and box elder county). From there it was another couple hundred feet of climbing to gain the ridge. From there it was easy running aside from the attacking bushes. Did I mention the awesome views? Its about 3.5 miles from the saddle to the top of Wellsville Cone (9356'). I took some pics, video and took a quick break. So far, my leg was doing great, but now that I had lots of downhill it would be put to the test. Back down the mountain but before dropping down Deep Canyon I took a detour to tag Mendon Peak (8766'). I have run past the peak a few times but never took the time to tag the peak. More pics, video and breaks and down the canyon I went. Once I dropped down off the saddle, my ITB was really unhappy and so I went slow and easy. Back at the bike, finally, I rode home in just over 30 mins and made a smoothie. Quite the adventure and I did it all without even driving anywhere. Pretty sweet! T- bike 82 mins 18.25 miles 1000' vert T- run 3:20 13.5 miles (14:49) 4800' vert -57mins to saddle -1:55 to cone -2:37 to mendon peak
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