JJJ
12-19-2009, 23:26
What started as a plan early in the week for 6+ of the Iron MT clan to run a 20 mile point to point ending up on the far side of Whitetop Mt.,
ended up with one other runner and I doing different loops out of Damascus -which happen to be short on electricity.
http://i46.tinypic.com/ziqddt.jpg
A third runner showed up later to x-c ski but we missed him.
While some snow would have been the perfect touch, we got about 8" in the valley and I think our planned start and end points ended up with 16".
I ended up slogging out the standard 8 mile loop from Dot's to Straight Branch on the AT and Iron Mt trails, Eric made his loop about 12-13.
http://i46.tinypic.com/jjpkki.jpg
this is Eric on the warmup hill just before the trail into Mock Holler
http://i49.tinypic.com/2i26ejq.jpg
we followed a sole set of prints for about a mile into the wood before they tuned back.
Eric wore a set of spike attachments for his shoes, but said they started causing his shoe to eat the skin off his heels,
so he ended up carrying them most of the way he said.
http://i45.tinypic.com/5xsj1l.jpg
snow-ladden mountain Ivy, rhododendron, pine, and hemlock engulfed the trail in many...
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ahs3fm.jpg
many.....
http://i46.tinypic.com/2q3dtv4.jpg
(yes, this is the trail)
http://i47.tinypic.com/14ijs0k.jpg
many....... places.
Beech Grove Gap
http://i49.tinypic.com/swy5h3.jpg
Fork Mt overlook
http://i48.tinypic.com/5kpyrl.jpg
A veil invites the imagination to run wild. run wild (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlhC53zfVOk).
JJJ
ended up with one other runner and I doing different loops out of Damascus -which happen to be short on electricity.
http://i46.tinypic.com/ziqddt.jpg
A third runner showed up later to x-c ski but we missed him.
While some snow would have been the perfect touch, we got about 8" in the valley and I think our planned start and end points ended up with 16".
I ended up slogging out the standard 8 mile loop from Dot's to Straight Branch on the AT and Iron Mt trails, Eric made his loop about 12-13.
http://i46.tinypic.com/jjpkki.jpg
this is Eric on the warmup hill just before the trail into Mock Holler
http://i49.tinypic.com/2i26ejq.jpg
we followed a sole set of prints for about a mile into the wood before they tuned back.
Eric wore a set of spike attachments for his shoes, but said they started causing his shoe to eat the skin off his heels,
so he ended up carrying them most of the way he said.
http://i45.tinypic.com/5xsj1l.jpg
snow-ladden mountain Ivy, rhododendron, pine, and hemlock engulfed the trail in many...
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ahs3fm.jpg
many.....
http://i46.tinypic.com/2q3dtv4.jpg
(yes, this is the trail)
http://i47.tinypic.com/14ijs0k.jpg
many....... places.
Beech Grove Gap
http://i49.tinypic.com/swy5h3.jpg
Fork Mt overlook
http://i48.tinypic.com/5kpyrl.jpg
A veil invites the imagination to run wild. run wild (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlhC53zfVOk).
JJJ