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Biked up the Hole in the Fence trail. Probably one of the two or three bumpiest (the slope surface is controlled by a heavily pitted and cracked limestone rock unit) trails in the world that can be ridden if you have no skill. When I got back home, I felt for my internal organs, and they're all in the wrong places.
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I ran trails late in the day, and decided to check out the ongoing work on the Aspen Trail re-routing. I ran the whole thing, and it looked like nearly all the work has been completed, with maybe just a tiny section of compacting left to do at one end, which probably explains why the last piece of the re-route was still taped off.
Next up on the trail work is supposed to be the re-routing of Haunted Forest, and I could make out tracks from something mechanized here and there headed in that direction so I headed that way, too. And, sure enough, after running about halfway up Haunted Forest, I found the small backhoe and the first small bit of work that had been completed--it looked like the trail crew had gotten up there with maybe an hour or so of work time left in the day before quitting time.
Then back to the trail head. Over the time I was out, the air quality got noticeably poorer, with a strong smoke smell by the end. And just like yesterday, the wind died away completely by around sunset.
There had been a 20% chance of some rain in the forecast for today, but, unfortunately, nothing doing. With the end of the water season just about a week away, it's looking like we're going to end up with something like around 58% of normal precipitation for the water season, or under that.