{"id":8800,"date":"2014-07-04T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2021-09-17T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:33:07","slug":"running-a-new-trail-on-turkey-mountain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=8800","title":{"rendered":"Running a New Trail on Turkey Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was Wednesday night and I took advantage of my weekly kitchen pass to go to Turkey Mountain to run a few miles. It has been a few weeks since I had been there and I was missing it. Check out this anchor<\/a>, if you need tourism related information.<\/p>\n

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I took off on the well known trails. There were less people than usual on the mountain even though the weather was very mild.<\/p>\n

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Turkey Mountain has several marked trails, some with nice neat official looking markers. This marker is on the blue trail. People that go to Turkey Mountain a lot know that the official marked trails are just a framework. There are a multitude of unmarked trails. The unmarked trails are what makes the mountain fun. I think I have been on almost all of them. Or so I thought.<\/p>\n

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The pink trail is a semiofficial trail on the west side of the mountain. It is probably the least traveled and known of the trails but also the longest and most complex.<\/p>\n

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I like to go “off the reservation” to the seldom used trail on the other side of Elwood. I hardly ever see people there. I have seen a lot of deer there in the last year or so. I used to see lots of deer on main part of the mountain but as the park has gotten busier the deer have got scarcer.<\/p>\n

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The trail is a single loop and it is very difficult to get lost.<\/p>\n

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But on Wednesday night, I noticed a new trail with a new marker. Zoi? What is that. What does it mean. Anyway I took off down that trail. It was brand new. I had heard reference on facebook to somebody running several miles of brand new trail on Turkey Mountain and I wondered where it was. Well, I think I found it. The only thing was that it went on and on.<\/p>\n

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And it was marked with pink ribbons. It was quite long and I got to wondering what the deal was. Does it loop back on itself or does it fizzle out or just what. I ran into some bikers that were dismounted and were clearing what they called a “cutoff” to bypass a real bad section just ahead. I bid them adieu and headed off to find the “bad section.” I kind of like bad sections.<\/p>\n

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I got passed by a bunch of bikers going pretty fast.<\/p>\n

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Later on I found the bad section and discovered that the fricking frackers had been there ahead of me. I’m actually a fan of fricking frackers, they put food on the table in my house. Seriously though this well looked like it still had tubing in it and a sucker rod string. What’s up with that? The tubing looks open to atmosphere and so there is probably no harm done, probably.<\/p>\n

I finally found my way back to the connection to the existing trails. I was pretty happy. Not too many days when you can find new trails in an area where I thought I knew it all.<\/p>\n

It is no fun being a know it all is what I say. What about you? What do you say<\/p>\n