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Sunday Sep 22, 2019 #
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After some map work at Sugar Hill, I went for an adventure run in the SE part of the national forest. Part of the run traversed an area I'd run through before--but a while back. Maybe a long while back. Since then, many beetle trees have toppled over, and much of the area was drabbade by a giant mastication machine. I'm not really sure what the objective of the mastication is, or even if there is genuine belief that something positive will be achieved. It has seemed weird to me before, and it remains so. Especially doing this thinning after the beetles have already done such a good job...
There were large areas of young, waist high aspens coming up. That surprised me, since the general trend for some years has been that of established aspen groves dying off and in some cases virtually disappearing. One theory: the ground has been sprayed with bacon grease. Some tout bacon as the cure for all that ails, but I have never heard of it used for this kind of an application before. However, it appears to have been quite successful.
At one point while I was looking more at the ground than my surroundings, I glanced up and was startled to see a quite large bull moose quite near. I guess I was lucky it was (apparently) not feeling aggressive because it could have easily have closed the gap without my being aware of it until too late. Its antlers had a wingspan that would make a Division 1 basketball coach salivate.
The other part of the run took me through an area that was entirely new to me. It was very strong granite terrain--world class, actually. Even a quick KP map of this area would make for some really impressive orienteering. It does require lidar though, and lidar coming to Wyoming might be only another one of those things that will only happen when hell freezes over.
My good deed for the run was finding and bringing back one of those awful mylar balloon things. They should have a $500 deposit on them. Maybe more.
By the time I was finishing, it was halfway between darkness and dark.
There were large areas of young, waist high aspens coming up. That surprised me, since the general trend for some years has been that of established aspen groves dying off and in some cases virtually disappearing. One theory: the ground has been sprayed with bacon grease. Some tout bacon as the cure for all that ails, but I have never heard of it used for this kind of an application before. However, it appears to have been quite successful.
At one point while I was looking more at the ground than my surroundings, I glanced up and was startled to see a quite large bull moose quite near. I guess I was lucky it was (apparently) not feeling aggressive because it could have easily have closed the gap without my being aware of it until too late. Its antlers had a wingspan that would make a Division 1 basketball coach salivate.
The other part of the run took me through an area that was entirely new to me. It was very strong granite terrain--world class, actually. Even a quick KP map of this area would make for some really impressive orienteering. It does require lidar though, and lidar coming to Wyoming might be only another one of those things that will only happen when hell freezes over.
My good deed for the run was finding and bringing back one of those awful mylar balloon things. They should have a $500 deposit on them. Maybe more.
By the time I was finishing, it was halfway between darkness and dark.