Fall is disappearing

I've been meaning to post about fall, but haven't had time. And now it seems fall is leaving us already. Tuesday we woke up to a pretty thick blanket of new snow in the Chugach front range. It even came down as far as Flattop. We usually have to wait a few weeks for it to come down that far. Hopefully this is a sign of what's to come this winter.

I declared this week hiking week, for no better reason than the fact that I can hike now, and that on Saturday while hiking up Near Point I couldn't breath. I've been hiking with Niko every day after work and taking pictures of the fall foliage. I even got to sneak in a little shuffle run to test out how the toe feels. It feels fine.

I've been doing relatively mellow hikes this week, but wanted to get in some elevation gain, because hiking on flat ground really doesn't get my heart rate up. I didn't get to go all the way to the top of all of these hikes because we are running out of daylight! The sun is setting around 8pm now.

Monday, Near Point...



Tuesday, Flattop...








Wednesday, The Dome...









Niko looks like a scary smiling wolf dog in this picture...



Thursday, I took a brief break to go see the Lion King on stage. It was excellent by the way. I recommend you go see it before they leave town.

Friday, TBD...

I'm already starting to feel like I'm getting back in shape and even woke up feeling sore this morning, which was exciting after feeling kind of mushy for the past month.

Next week I plan on getting my bike legs spinning again. I went back to the doctor today and he said that I can pretty much do anything I want now, but to use my own judgment. If something feels like it's pulling too much on my tendon, maybe back off a little. But at least I can get back on a bike.

It's now one week before I leave for Moab so I don't expect to gain any fitness back before then, but maybe I can comfortable again on a bike, because I have literally ridden my bike ONE TIME since the Soggy Bottom, which was on August 1st. Moab, please be nice to me.