Driven

After work, up Farmington canyon. Where the pavement ends I ran on the single track by the river, up to the campground. First time on the single track. What I found: A very old vehicle, maybe 1920s or 30s, wrecked at the end of a very overgrown old road that parallels the river. Another vehicle that was run off a cliff from the campground above. From the campground I ran up another 2 miles, then back on the road for a total of 13. The gate is open and vehicles are now on the road.

Up Farmington canyon.

Did the Grandeur loop 'smorning with JUN and Salt Lake visitor Josh. We started up in the dark about 5:10AM. Temperature was pleasant but cool until we got into the Pipeline, then up several degrees. I took a digger and got some Church Fork on me.

PM:

Up the single track in F-town canyon with MGW Dorsimus. We spotted a few wrecks in the canyon, including the tailgate of a red Ford F-150. We went up to the camground and then went back on the trail. Found the waterfall.

Nice big day of vert gain today.

With the DCD (Davis County Dudes) I ran from Farmington to the top of Centerville Zig Zag, with lots-o-vert. Steve Newman, Matt Ricks, Ryan Lauck.

Shepard Creek trail with Dorsimus MGW. We parked at the Farmington pond and ran up the North side to the terrace trail. Nice climb for building uphill power. We made a quick detour to explore another mine near the mouth of the canyon. We ran over to Shepard Creek and went steeply up the new trail that ascends toward Francis peak. When I say steep I mean steep. This is Speedgoat training right there.The trail is well marked and we know the guy who built it. I enjoyed this run.

This week has been all about vertical gain. Uphill stuff. (23,000 feet this week.) Today was a lot of the same. I went with Martinez to American Fork canyon and we intended to climb Box Elder peak. There is a lot of snow up there still, and the ridge leading to the peak has a lot of cornice overhang. There was one huge cornice near the top of the peak. We observed this from a couple thousand feet below because we went as high as the lower ridge at the meadow before the climb to the summit. We were ascending a snow field through some scattered boulders when A. felt snow shift beneath her and got spooked. I could tell she didn't want to try for the peak after that. I could have gone on and got the summit but we decided it was time to go down. We also witnessed an avalanche on the East face of the mountain. We had a good run down to the reservoir where we had parked. Not finished for the day, we decided to drive to Timp cave and run up to the cave and back. We got about a quarter mile and maybe 400 feet up and then were stopped with a closed and locked gate. D'oh. Still not finished, we drove over to Dry Canyon TH and did a run up to Horsetail falls. Of course, we overshot it and did some extra climbing, but I wasn't bothered. I was in training mode and made use of the steep climb to strengthen my legs. We eventually found the falls, got a drink from the cold mountain water, and had a fun run back down.