Alta Lodge to Twin Lakes Pass to Solitude, back up the road to Brighton, to Lake Mary, to Lake Katherine (the long way, not the shortcut), to Katherine's Pass, to Sunset Peak/Sunset Pass, to Point Supreme in Alta, down the meandering road to upper Albion, to Cecret Lake, up Sugarloaf to Sugarloaf Pass, back into Mineral Basin a good chunk of the way towards Hidden Peak. I decided to turn around and not do the whole Snowbird part when incoming weather and clouds started to look nasty (unfortunately had dropped in elevation a fair amount on the way towards Hidden Peak before starting the uphill towards it, so I had to make up for all of the descent), so I went back over Sugarloaf and then over Germania Pass and down through Collins Gulch to Goldminer's Daughter and back to the lodge rather than cresting Hidden Peak and going down Peruvian and back up the canyon. It had rained a bit when I was at the bottom of Brighton and then it actually snowed on me, extremely lightly (very tiny granules), on Sunset Peak. When I got to the bottom of Alta, the rain started getting kind of nasty for a bit, so I'm glad that I took the shorter route down and cut 2 miles off what I planned. Hip wasn't quite 100%, but it was still really good in my longest run in quite a few months. Took a hair over 3 hours to complete, as I was climbing a massive amount (about 6500' of both gain and loss), going very easy, taking pictures along the way, and just enjoying myself.
Some cool pics from the run, although only the first half, as my battery died at Katherine's Pass:
It kind of blows my mind that you can see all of this within about half of a 16 mile trail run. The even crazier thing is that 2nd half of the run was even cooler...
If I'm healthy enough to get in 16 miles of very challenging trails without any real issues from my hip, I think I'm healthy enough to start training for real again. I'm going to be in Seattle from Wednesday to Saturday for a conference, but I'll still be able to get some good running in while I'm there.
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