back from the wild

[ilanarama]

I appear to have survived the first backpack of the season, an excellent outing to Slickhorn Canyon in Utah. Photos to follow once I get them off the camera and sort through them. PS littleamerica - if you and the dentist want to take a long weekend the first weekend of May, we're planning on the Fish Creek/Owl Creek loop.

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[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Aw man. We're in Eureka or somewhere doing the Avenue of the Giants (http://www.theave.org/) that weekend. Thanks for keeping us in mind.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Woo! Are you coming to the Durango Double (http://www.durangomarathon.com/) this fall?

I'm undecided whether I'll do the half-double (25k trail run Sat/half-marathon Sun) or the marathon.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure; my current training schedule has me doing a marathon some time in August. I'm tentatively looking at doing one in Iceland.

I want to do Imogene, but that may be too soon after the marathon.

I can mix and match things up to about half-marathon distance, though. We'll see.

Glad to hear you're thinking of doing another race; does that mean that your knees are all better again?

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about 'all better', because they crapped out in November after a 20-miler and I'm not up to that mileage again, but so far so good, knock wood.

I was thinking about Imogene as well.

Next race for me will be the Narrow Gauge 10-mile on Memorial Day weekend (part of the Iron Horse festival).

[wildcelticrose.livejournal.com]

Ooooh.

Now you've gone and made me homesick...

I'm contemplating a SE Utah trip this fall

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

It was really gorgeous, spring just beginning to spring - buds coming out on the cottonwoods at the bottom of the canyon. Water's already beginning to dry up though since it was such a dry winter. And it was pretty hot for April (although we had a cool wind on Saturday) - it was really weird driving back and seeing the snow on the La Platas (and on the north-facing slopes next to 160!) and remembering oh yeah, it's still early spring and not summer yet, at least in Colorado.

[(Anonymous)]

Dry winter!? Yikes! Maybe I should be sending bottles of water to you or something. Here's what the reservoirs are doing in our neck of Northern California at the moment....

http://www.gilroydispatch.com/content/img/f183237/Anderson-fall-CR.jpg

It's funny thinking about droughts in Colorado. I don't ever remember that being an issue when I was growing up!

Eric W.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, northern CO got the snow, southern CO got bupkis. I did read that California was lavishly blessed (maybe too lavishly!) but we sure need the moisture, even though we did get a lot of moisture right toward the end of March.

The Four Corners region has been in a drought for going on 7 years now, if you don't count last year which was above-normal moisture. There are strong indications that it's a local effect of global climate change, alas, so things aren't likely to get better long-term.