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Today I took Samantha and went out to the Nebo Loop in Payson Canyon parked at the Loafer Mountain T railhead and hooked on to the Blackhawk Trail. I only had four hours of light left so I had to keep on the pedal as much as I could.

I did take time out every 15 min to take some video and photos. During the first 45 min when I went to take a little video I noticed my camera was gone, yea missing in action is the word. So I had to track back 15 min on the trail and find it and I did laying lens down in a small spring where it bounced out of my back shirt pocket.

Everything seemed to be ok so I wiped it off and got going, this caused me to loose 30 min so I had to push it a bit to keep it going. I had a light in my pack so I wasn’t to worried about the time. This is a tough ride to do but worth it in the long run!

Check out the video and for more videos look at my Video Blog.

Video was taken at Big Springs Hollow on 7-15-2010 trail running with Sam & Jack.

I spent the last two nights Trail running the 8k loop at Big Springs in South Fork Canyon up Provo Canyon. This is always a good solid run and the last few days I have been doing a little after hours fun. I have been so busy with work that I haven’t been able to get out till after dark. Running in the dark is a little different, I have a headlight on but it tends to light up the wildlife’s eyes and gets a little spooky when you are jogging through the woods late at night. The only thing that seems to help is the music I have blasting in my ears, that seems to take my mind off the things that go bump in the night.

Tends to be a bit cooler at night also, it got down to about 55 the first night but I was up there after 1:00 am. You seem to forget about the cold fast after the first 6 min of pounding the trail with your feet. Sam my German Shepard went with me both times and she is doing better on her trail killing problem.

you tend to see all kinds of crazy stuff at night, your eyes play tricks on you with the shadows. At one point we are coming down through a big wide open meadow and Sam gets all worked up over something big moving on our right. I could see it’s eyes glowing orange and they were about 12 feet off the ground, had to be a moose looking us over. Gets pretty darn spooky at times but I think that is part of the fun!

Photos were taken at Sundance Utah on 6-17-2010.

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