{"id":1389,"date":"2015-11-30T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2015-12-01T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T15:23:10","slug":"exploring-the-provo-foothills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Provo Foothills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have done a number of runs in the Orem\/Lindon foothills on the side of the mouth of Provo Canyon, but not much on the south side of the canyon mouth. I remedied that this last week with 2 runs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/438600955\/embed\/b3b9768d6004f61c4bb239a6fe1ff95cc9ddc786\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Starting at the Indian Hills trailhead I headed up the first mile climb and then another couple miles along the BST that travers up-canyon. The was ice in a few spots, but not bad. \u00a0It felt great to be out. Once I turned around, my right IT Band flared up pretty quick and didn&#8217;t let up &#8211; getting especially bad on the last mile descent. \u00a0More time on I the foam roller, I guess. Lots of tread mill. \u00a0No hills.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1390\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5639.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1390\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5639-1024x768.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_5639\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5639.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5639.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5639.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5639.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down-canyon towards the mouth of Provo Canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/440953303\/embed\/60b79a7bfb93d3f206fbcc881e09ab6c0676a728\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On Saturday I planned to try out my new snowshoes for the first time up at Aspen Grove, if the snow was deep enough. \u00a0Unfortunately, the anyone road was closed. \u00a0About 10-15 minutes earlier, a oil tanker overturned, spilling 1,000 gallons of crude oil into the Provo a River. Very sad. \u00a0Nobody was hurt. I&#8217;m glad I wasn&#8217;t a few minutes earlier or I could have been in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wasn&#8217;t planning to run because of my knee, but decided to give it a try. I ran up the Sq*** Peak Road a bit, then dropped onto the Cactus Hill Connector and then to the top of Cactus Hill. The trail was untouched by human feet until the top of the hill. \u00a0Just animal tracks on about 2 inches of fresh snow. So perfect. \u00a0Down the west side of the hill there were a bunch of tracks from earlier in the morning, but once I headed back up canyon on the Smith Ditch a then BST I had taken on Monday, it was fresh tracked again. So beautiful. I bombed back down the road to my car. \u00a0The knee felt *ok and it was so fun to be out on the fresh snow. \u00a0But, for the next bit I need to keep it flat. Treadmill, I assume.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1391\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5671.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1391\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5671-1024x768.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_5671\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5671.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5671.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5671.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5671.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Altar at the top of Cactus Hill. Mt. Timpanogos shrouded in clouds in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1392\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5673.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1392\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5673-1024x768.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_5673\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5673.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5673.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5673.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5673.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh snow, fresh tracks on the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have done a number of runs in the Orem\/Lindon foothills on the side of the mouth of Provo Canyon, but not much on the south side of the canyon mouth. I remedied that this last week with 2 runs. Starting at the Indian Hills trailhead I headed up the first mile climb and then another couple miles along the BST that travers up-canyon. 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