H and his triple sessions! Saturday he did a morning road ride (21.09 miles; 1:08:14 time; 18.5 average speed; 27.7 max. speed) before the three of us went to Day Canyon for a hike. There isn't an official trailhead, just a spot for a few cars to park on the Potash Road, then a social trail put in by climbers over the years. There was actually one car there when we got there, but it was a young family with their dog and we passed them quickly.
Day Canyon is green and cool and shady at the mouth of the canyon, with tall cottonwood trees that had sent out literal drifts of cottony seeds. But once you get past that, and the sun climbs above the canyon walls, there is no shade. The climb is pretty relentless too. We didn't try to reach the head of the canyon this time - on our previous two attempts, the trail just faded away before we got there - turning around after about an hour and a half of up. On the return, however, we somehow got off the trail and ended up down in the bottom of the wash. We actually preferred that: it was more fun having to scramble and there were some pools for Milton to wade in.
Hike stats: 6.82 miles; 2:18 time/3.0 m.p.h. moving; 2:28/2.8 overall; 1,050' elevation
Since it was our last day, we dropped Milton at the house - he wasn't upset about it as he definitely had cumulative fatigue - and took our cruisers (double session for me; H's third workout of the day) to Josie Wyatt's to see our favorite bartender. We felt we had earned our beers and toasted to a very good spring break.
Cruise stats: 2.3 miles roundtrip; 15.21 minutes; 9.0 m.p.h. average speed; 19:8 max speed)
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