{"id":428,"date":"2014-04-30T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T03:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professorontherun.wordpress.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2015-06-12T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:22:29","slug":"inaugural-bushwhack-and-bloodletting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.professorontherun.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Bushwhack and Bloodletting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got home from work and it was just too nice to not go out. My knee was a bit sore, and I knew I would regret it (I don’t) but I went anyways. I was planning on parking at Famrington Pond and running the BST\/Farmington Upper Terrace loop, but when I arrived at the canyon I saw that the gates were open. Yeah! Up the canyon I went.I parked at the end of the pavement and ran up the Farmington Creek Trail past Halfway Creek and Corduroy Creek, looking for the right-hand turnoff for the Old Aqueduct Trail.<\/p>\n

It is a beautiful canyon. It was my first time running up that trail and I think it is going to be a go-to trail for me. Not too steep, nice and easy, well-maintained.<\/p>\n

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I can’t believe I live here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Later this summer in the heat…I just might take a dip!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Also, some old cars wrecked in the forest. I don’t know they were pushed off the canyon road above, or if they were from back when that trail was an old road bed.<\/p>\n

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I bet my dad could ID this down to year\/make\/model.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Car on right, engine block on left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In any case, I couldn’t find the Old Aqueduct turnoff. I took a right-hand turn up past the big waterfall and it quickly devolved into a bushwhack. Ah…just like old times.<\/p>\n

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Looks like it MIGHT be a trail…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I got home and got in the shower, I discovered that I not only did my inaugural bushwhacks, but also the inaugrual bloodletting. All those little scratches really sting in the hot water and soap!\u00a0 Hurts so good!<\/p>\n

3.5 Miles in 46:08 @ 13:18 min\/mile and 994 ft. elevation<\/a><\/p>\n

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