May 25, 2010 Georgetown, CO
16:36:22 hours, MDT
…continued journal…
Out around 6 AM temp. was about 30° F.
Continuing the training; some pay for gym memberships inside… the way I see it at this point in life is simply that this man has already paid for it and therefore the whole outdoors is the gym so-to-speak. Besides why work the body and lungs in a ‘controlled environment’?
Walked w/ Ellie up Biddle, scooped her 1st dump into the Denver Post bag and continued on downtown.
Passed through both gates on way up tracks to Plume. The tracks were mainly in the shade and before the sun-up in the valley, therefore atmosphere was cool and comfortable. Threw the stick in Clear Creek at many points and she was not washed away. She is slightly faint-hearted at how white and roily the creek is becoming now that it is running high.
Walked west along US 6 out of Silver Plume to a mine and tailings owned by Jack Pine mines and on all 4s like a crab we walked or better yet scooted down a pile 70 feet down and across the face maybe another 100 feet. The tailings pile must be near as I can reckon maybe a 55% angle and the talus very loose.
Walked back by bike path along-side I-70 to the High Gate Bridge and threw the stick into Clear for Ellie-Mae one last session and then headed in for more coffee and reading a book―> by Peter Maass Crude The Violent Twilight of Oil.
Nice four hour walk. Plume is approximately 9,100 feet elev.
Sat in chair in back and luxuriated
in the warmth of the sun before the inevitable clouds obscured it.
Took a nap, ate lunch and now am finished reading another grip of pages in Walking My Dog, Jane by Ned Rozell.
Nice day today, here at elevation.
Elevation…8,600 feet is cool clear and invigorating.
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