We did Yellow Fork today for practice. I wanted to go up the left trail where we usually come down. Somewhere along the way we missed a turn or two and ended up trailblazing up a deer trail to some road. The road ended up being one we had never been on and it kept climbing up and up. Alex and I were leading the way so most kids tried to follow, most probably would have turned back at 2 miles up where the trailblazing began but there was a lot of positive peer pressure. We ended up going to a ridge where we were above the copper mines and just below the one radio tower. We could see Butterfield, Rose, and Yellow Fork canyons. The climb had been a nasty 2,000 feet in 4.5 miles, kids were cursing my name! However, we had 8 boys, 3 girls, and myself that made it to the top. On the way down most of the kids went back the same way while me, Alex, Aubree, and a couple others went down several different roads that kept splitting. We ended up running almost a mile further that the rest of the group, but finished first. We came out from the south end of Rose canyon. This was a brutal run, which I loved, I just should have taken water with me. It might have been the hardest workout any of those kids have ever done. Jon, Cody, and Paul would have loved this run! I was surprised at how pretty those Oquirrh mountains are once you get up into them. 1:26:26 for the run, 7:15s down and 10-12:00s up.
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