Running hills 1:45:00 [3] 8.0 mi (13:07 / mi) +2617ft 10:01 / mi
shoes: Vasque Aethertech
With Birdy and Morris up at Cougar: grabbed the maps and did some exploration. Well, that led to some serious bushwacking. The north side of Bear Trail is completely unmaintained, meaning that we had to cross a river three times, then duck under or crawl over some serious logs, hack through underbrush, etc. Then we lost the trail all together and went perpendicular up to a housing development, referenced a water tower and then did some more off-trail work to finally get back to another trail loop. Now my left hip flexor is tight. Not quite the trail run we had envisioned...