Posts Tagged ‘Dowdy Draw’

This morning’s trail run on Dowdy Draw was like running through sand.  We all wore YakTrax so we wouldn’t slip on the ice, though after a while I completely stopped worrying about ice and just tried to get my feet off the ground.  The snow was powdery, and there was enough of it to make [...]

Change is in the air. The colors are deepening, the sun is lower on the horizon, and there’s a certain calm that comes after the busy-ness of summer. It’s officially autumn now, and the temperatures reflect that change. It was 47 degrees at 6:20 on Saturday morning; warm enough for shorts, but still a mite [...]

Karley arranged our annual, un-official Turkey Trot. Seven A.M. at Doudy Draw, we’d do the new loop that was just completed this summer around the top of the mesa off of Highway 93. The weather was supposed to be cold, rainy and/or snowy, but the moisture never materialized.