A wanted to do at least one longer hike, so Tuesday was the Hidden Valley/Moab Rim loop with Milton (10.1 miles; 3:42 moving time with 18 minutes of stoppage). There were no coyote sightings along Pipedream this time - no sightings of anyone or anything at all, except a rabbit or two. It's been several months since we've been to the Hidden Valley trail head and when we got there after finishing the Pipedream stretch, we could see that it had gotten hammered again by the August floods. The drainage that had washed out a couple of years ago had washed out again in the same place, cutting a deeper channel across the trail.
We didn't see anyone or anything in Hidden Valley or once we crossed over the pass to the jeep trails. The day was bright and I made Milton wear his white t-shirt (now really more dirt-colored than white) to try to keep some of the sun off. It was warm - all week was highs in the low 80s and overnight lows in the low 50s - but not too hot, and he even found one pothole still with some clean water to wade in. We texted H from the top of the final descent and when we'd gotten down, past the jeeps and side-by-sides heading up the Moab Rim trail, he was there waiting for us with snacks and beverages.
During our parking lot sojourn, we talked for a while with Roel, a Dutch runner who was scouting out portions of the upcoming Moab 240. He seemed psyched about it, in a good head space, and more concerned about nutrition than the distance (240 miles), the elevation gain/loss (+31,000 feet) or the sleep deprivation. We got his bib number to keep track of him.
In other activities, H finished his "recovery" period and did a 25 mile road ride (1:24 hours) on the bike path whilst A and M were hiking. And the afternoon and evening were spent at home, reading and hanging out with our neighbor.
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