Scottish Golf

The Granttown-on-Spey course. Day 6 start is just down the road to the R.

Snowstorm Revisited

Another Phil, actually running!

Snowstorm 10K

Lyn finishing for another record. A hard race though.


Hard, but worth the $50 record!


The injured Phil having a good finish

Bolton Notch

Here's our route yesterday.

Mushrooms

A close up.

This might be Red Reishi, which grows on dead hemlocks. And surprisingly, we found them on a hemlock trunk, still standing, killed by woolie adelgids.

Hawk

Our vigilant visitor

Wildlife

All sorts of creatures have been visiting.

O Trip to Europe

In early July, we headed to Europe to run in the 5 Days of the Fortresses in northeast Italy, near the Dolomites, and the 5 Jours de France, near Bordeaux. Great time, great orienteering. Can't wait for another.


The setting for our stay in Italy, the small town on the shelf in the middle of the picture. We were running in woods with slopes like this. On the "rest" day we hiked up to the top of the chair lift, the open area on the far right horizon. It was overcast as we hiked with thunder getting closer. We got to the refuge at the top of the lift just as the rains hit. So we stopped for refreshments and lunch. Handy. Then ran down the lift line back to town in the rain with thunder all about.


The town of Folgario: quaint, cute, all those things. A ski lift goes right up from just out of site.


Our hotel in Italy. We had the balcony room on the left/upper.


Our first day, before competition started, we went to a model map area to check out the mapping and what the woods were like. Afterwards we needed refreshments.


The encampment at the Finish, Day 1.


Our spot looking over the Finish Chute.


Lyn enjoying the ambiance of the Finish of Day 3, though neither of us had particularly good days here.


Refreshments always available, Day 3.


The finish area on Day 3


George -trying to catch up with Lyn, as always.


Lyn finishing on Day 5, Italy, Placing 2nd on the day, only 13 seconds back. A great result.

Scenes from France


Typical mass in the start/finish area - Day 1 of the French 5 Day.


Our valiant crew.

The leader on Day 1.

The "Result of the Week"


Our home in France, with our travelling team.

Visit to Bordeaux city


The gardens along the river in Bordeaux city.


The neat skim pond in the park along the river.


Nice way to cool off.


On our last day we drove over to St Emilion through the vinyards of Bordeaux. The town reminded us of "Chocolat"!


The streets were steep, but easy for us to manage.


The town square with the little cafes and wine shops all over.


We had a nice lunch at one of the out door cafes, drinking the local wine, of course.

Bluff Head, Durham

This was an area Gari was intent on mapping. Some great woods.

Sandhill Cranes

These were wandering around the campground last weekend at the Team Trials. Make a strange groaring noise.

Volvo

Geezer Time

The joy of playing in old age.

Joe's Tarrywile Du-o

Route for the latest Du-O. 1:49.

Collinsville Bake Off

The route of the Bake-Off - 2 loops around the course. The FR shows a great track with very little gap.

Case Mt Snow Run

Run from N parking lot by Case Pond. Trails icy but footing ok with O studs. Snow soft and breaking through so difficult.

Penwood Tarriffville Run

Nice run today along Metacomet Ridge from Penwood to Tarriffville and back. Still have solid snow cover with loose bit on top for good grip though was slick in a few short section that the sun got to and starting to give in a few others, esp towards end. Best part is snow covers the trap rock which makes this a rough run otherwise.

Mt Tom Billygoat

Ran the 2004 Billygoat in reverse. Mostly bare ground with some patches of snow, about 18. Water features well frozen making for good routes. Showing route on map of top section of area as don't have full area yet and haven't done the topo either.

Waterfall Loop

Today was an easy long run to finish off the week. Headed over to the Waterfall and around the loop there. Overall a nice run but we're both weary and ready for a bit of rest. Waterfall was completely frozen up, like an ice palace - pretty.

Gay City 2001 Billygoat Course

For a long run, ran the 2001 Billygoat course - in reverse, skipped #2. Start/Finish at the winter car park. ~2" light fluffy snow gave good footing, good vis. Temp in the 20s with some wind evident on ridges and open area, like 17 to 16. Nice run. Lyn did the 1998 Red Y Day 2, Troll Cup course.

Wallyworld 7mi HTC Run & Tylers Mill O Run

Today was a long day to finish off the week. We combined the HTC Winter Series Wallyworld 7 mi run with another exploration of the Tylers Mill Open space area. Most of the run is through the Wallingford Town Forest and associated open space, about 1200 acres. The area is mostly open farm land, a winery, forest and a swamp though there is a string of mega-houses along the E side of the race course (blue line). The red line is our route through the woods and follows, more or less, a similar run we did with Gari, once upon a time.

Summit Trail Repeats

After 15' warmup through fields to trail junction, did 4x 3' hills up Summit Trail. Recovery was jog back to start, about 3-4' each. Hard going. FR track looks pretty good: 8x on hill section with some deviation, twice on warmup/cooldown with bit more stray signal.

Mt Tom Winter Course

Today we ran at Mt Tom on the streamers Phil left for contols 11-22. My route from the FR is shown as overlaid using Gartrip. Trace seems to agree for the most part. Some slight shifts, but that depends a lot on the Calibration process.