Beautiful day for a hike in the mountains. The Wild Moose Chase Trail Run. Our leg started at 10:30. We had never done this so didn't know about parking, location, etc. We wanted to make sure we had plenty of time before the race started. We arrived about 45 minutes early. It was a bit chilly and we immediately started trying to figure out a way to start early. Maybe with another leg of the race? We would be warm if we started immediately.
First things first. We found the outhouse and used it. You always have to that you know.
What a day. Fall colors popping out. A lone chair lift. Maybe it was part of the ski area at Mount Spokane at one time. Or maybe a sledding hill.
We went into the lodge where a fire was burning and it was toasty warm.
Well, I guess we didn't have to use the outhouse. That was a bummer discovering this. Rookie mistake.
OK, let's check things out. The start line and the finish line for everyone was the same but where were the routes for the different lengths. We did not want to get on the 25K path for sure. Maybe we could just walk past these people and start. Was that the right way?
We notice the group before us going down this area. No ambulance rides please. We decided to check it out. We started walking and they were all long gone.
Maybe they went this way. We were supposed to follow the orange markers for the 5K. We walked.
Sheila started her Apple Watch. We kept walking, then turned around and headed a different way. We saw arrows on the ground and we followed them but no orange markers. We finally talked to someone and we were going the wrong direction for our distance. Well, at least we got some more steps in. We headed back to the lodge.
Got our together picture taken.
And it was almost 10:30. That didn't work out very well.
Here we go with the rest of the 5K people. It was a good effort but unsuccessful.
What a beautiful day. The chill of fall was in the air!
Some trails were plenty wide and some more narrow.
I snapped lots of pictures of the scenery.
This one is my favorite.
I mentioned to Sheila that I thought we went uphill more than downhill. One thing about trail runs in the mountains they have hills.
These mean boys told us we could not go up the big hill behind them. It doesn't look that big but it was. They said no way. We really wanted to climb it but we weren't allowed to. We were so disappointed. It was toward the end of the trail run. It would have been a great challenge. Darn! Haha!
Arrows made of flour, no harm to the environment.
We are done! We actually found the moose! He looks sort of funny though. Standing on two legs? He is red. What's that about?
The end! Another adventure in the books. God is good, Got is good, all the time!
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