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Day Hike to Troll Falls
Springtime in the mountains is unpredictable. It could be sunny. It could be snowing. It could blow in with a thick fog and lock the world into a magical claustrophobia inside the vastness of unseen towering rock castles. Our first twenty-four hours in the mountains in 2021 saw all of those types of weather here,
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Sundog
The horizon-hugging sun of autumn and spring passing through the crisp, frosty air often whistles to her a pair of trusty companions: sundogs. SUNN – dawg Simply, sunlight refracting through ice crystals in the clouds creating a lens or halo effect in the sky. Listed among my favourite words is sundog. We had finished our
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How should you dress to run in spring thaw conditions?
Here in the western prairies of Canada winter is usually a deep, frozen trio of months shouldered by an unpredictable autumn at the front end and a sloppy, scattered mess of thawing weather on the tail. It’s Sunday, Runday, and this morning we ran a ten kilometer spring run through that some of that scattered
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melt
thin films of water painting asphaltwith spring soundsklooksh! kloompsh! klunsh!me treading carefully across aroundastrideblack reflections on the groundand remnants of wintercrunching underfootglinsch! grensch! glansch!gritstones pebblestraction against icy slicknesssweesse! schweesh! swaasse!that linger in shadecast by naked limbsleaflessthawingmeltinginto puddlesbecoming wet toes – bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each week to be creative, and
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Urban Creek Run Club
Sunday Runday, and the weather improved by about thirty degrees Celsius over last weekend. I’m not afraid of the cold, but since I couldn’t run with friends I’m not running alone in brutally freezing temps. This weekend we resumed our small band of cohort runners for the second real run club of the year, and