Trails!

Providence Hills Loop - 9

Crazy icy road.  I avoided the black stuff cause it was mostly black ice.  Slush is grippier.

T-1:10 (7:47) 550' vert 154 ave hr

Long Run with Mike and Joe - 

We went on a tour of North Logan and Hyde Park.  It was mostly roads since the trails were nasty ice.  Even the roads were pretty slick until the sun came out.  Beautiful day and clean air!  Dropped off the boys at 16 and added on another 4 to get 20.  I was sure dragging the last bit today (and the first actually).  Taking tomorrow off.  Merry Christmas!

T-2:46 (8:20) 1300' vert (152 ave hr)

Grandeur Peak double traverse.  Went up the West Gandeur Trail up to the peak (60 mins).  Trail was in great shape.  Perfect for the microspikes.  Dropped down the Millcreek side and hopped on the pipeline trail to Burch Hollow then went back.  Roughly 60 mins from Church Fork to the peak.  Pretty sweet day on the trails.  My cough is not any better now though.  Oops.  The other bummer is I popped an eyelet on my microspikes.  Crazy steep decents will do that...

T-3:26 13.5 miles 6250' vert (152 ave hr)

Mt. Olympus (9026') plus a bit on the BST to Oly. Cove.  Conditions were pretty good for a climb up to the peak.  The bottom 1.5 miles were pretty iced over with the upper half packed snow.  Used the microspikes for the upper half.  Legs were pretty dead from yesterday but still had a great time.  Its awesome sitting on the peak by yourself.  What a view!

T-2:51 (15:40) 5250' vert (146 ave HR) (1:28 to peak couting stops) 

PM: 3 miles cc skiing up green.  It was super icy and tough to not slide back down the hill.  Fun though.  Decided to run a bit (4 miles) too since the trail was packed down nicely.  Couldn't resist.

T-CC 42mins 3 miles 350' vert

T-run 37mins 4 miles 550' vert