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First Run with a Friend

First Run with a Friend

Back from my conference in Tucson, my family was out of town – so I had to take advantage of having free time to myself.  Up till now I had only run solo.  Even in Kearney on the streets – I may have run one time with my wife.  My next door neighbor said he was up for a run, even though he runs full-on 100 mile ultras.  He agreed to not make fun of my slow pace.  I was also a bit concerned because my left ankle still hurt a bit.  The ankle was tender, but didn’t cause much trouble.

Although he lives next door to me in Farmington, MVH had never been up the Davis Creek watershed much.  So, I had fun showing him a few trails – he couldn’t believe he hadn’t run them before.  We went up the main Davis Creek, over to Pretty Valley, and then across to the Ford Canyon Overlook and back.

4.7 miles @ 18:08 min/mile, 1,508 ft. elevation.

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Davis Creek Canyon Sunset
(MVH on the right)

15 October 2013 Davis Creek to Ford Canyon

Davis Creek to Ford Canyon

Davis Creek to Ford Canyon

High on the excitement of feeling a little bit familiar with the Davis Creek trails, and having looked at the map a lot, I decided to explore further.  I went up towards Pretty Valley, but cut East up the hill on what I thought was going to be a trail.  It was not.  More scratches and lesson learned.  If it looks like it “might” be a trail…that’s about all it is – it “might” be a trail.  But it is not, with surety, a trail.  I dropped back down to the main trail, went through Pretty Valley and pushed all the way to the Bountiful Peak Trail, up that to the Ford Canyon Outlook.  Gorgeous.  It had rained a few days before, however, and all the of the long grass alongside the trails was wet.  This soaked my socks all the way through.  At the outlook I took them off and had to wring them out.  Well worth it though.  On the way back I dropped down to the creek, across to the BST and looped that back around to my car.   6 miles @ 17:47 min/mile, 2,002 ft. elevation.

3D rendering of the trail and elevation, looking East

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Pretty Valley, looking down into South Farmington

25 September 2013 Pretty Valley

Panorama from the Ford Canyon Overlook, looking down on Centerville to the SW

25 September 2013 Ford Canyon Overlook