January 4, 2003
This hike was costly. While scouting out this hike earlier in the week, I punctured my oil filter, lost all my oil and seized the engine on the Stratus…a total loss. Luckily the car insurance covered the loss, minus $1,000 deductible.
Paul Hansen, Ed Johnson, and I participated on this run. We did a 12-mile route up and over Lake Mountain, which is the mountain on the west side of Utah Lake near my home. The elevation climb was about 2500 feet over a seven-mile stretch. The trail was a 4WD road, about 8 miles of which was packed, dry snow. Footing was excellent, the packed snow felt great to run on. Temperatures were 25-30…still pretty pleasant. We all stayed very warm. We completed the run in 2.5 hours. We had to shuttle a car, but arrived home by 10:30 a.m. It was a good work out. Afterwards we hit the pool.