AM - 11.4 Wet Sandy Trail. Steve and I went up to the Wet Sandy Trailhead, just below Oak Grove. I had never run this trail, but I wanted/needed one more trail fix before marathon training kicks in heavy and XC takes away all my weekends. The first 5 of this trail was awesome! Crossed streams, in ponderosa forest, fern covered meadows as we skirted the base of Pine Valley at 7000 ft. But then the trail just went dead; we hacked around for awhile and tried to find it again, but it was very vague and just crashed through scrub oak and manzanita. I had hoped (and thought) that it worked its way up to the top of the mountain and connected up with the Summit Trail (near the Whipple Trail), but if that is the case we missed it/lost it/or didn't go far enough. So after getting torn up, we just turned and brought it back. The streams were so nice and cold and tasted great. Not really as much mileage as I wanted, but it was 3 hours and really neat until where we turned around - even the rattlesnake I almost stepped on (beautiful gold and tan colors highlighting the diamondback pattern). (Landreth 938.4)
End to a very chill week. I feel a bit better about things than last weekend and am ready to get to it next week.
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