View Benchmark attempt with CraigL:
I met Craig at 5:20 am at the VB trailhead on Vintage View. We figured that someone had to be dumb enough to track out the trail since the last snow 4 days ago, but we were wrong. The snow was deep and not tracked at all from the start, so it was a major slog to say the least. 17 minutes for the first mile and I think the second was a touch longer than that with deep snow to deal with. Because of time VB was likely out, so we stayed on Ann's trail and ran back to Potato Hill and then down to the Red Rock trailhead.
The trail was actually tracked some from the tunnel back to Red Rock, so the running was a lot easier. Once we hit the trailhead we picked up the road and ran back to Vintage View. It definitely felt a lot tougher than 6.5 miles.
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