We parked at the La Prairie staging on the Hwy and headed up Flood Mountain. Once on the quad trail (which is the actually leg of the race) it is quite well marked. Lots of orange tagging in the trees anyway.
Ran into Mike who was out training that day as well and he advised us not to try slugfest. So once we got snowed out of quading to the top of Flood we took his advice. But Amanda and I parted ways with the guys for awhile and ran down Flood the 9 km back to the trucks in about an hour.
Then we packed up the rhinos and moved back West 10 km to the Grande parking area and had the boys take us up that way. Lots of snow covering the trail and even more at the top.
But we were able to pick our way around on foot and the boys found their way around in the rhinos as well.
We had wanted to do the "powerline" as well but weren't sure about snow. You can see in the picture the line of snow on the far hill is where we had to go!
But we got out the binoculars and thought we could pick our way through. So, Amanda and I headed off, leaving the boys at the top.
The next picture is the view from where we came!
So the boys waited for us to make sure we could make it around at the bottom (as we couldn't see it from the top) and when we said we were good they took off back the way they came to organize the rhinos and meet us back on the North of Grande Cache at the cemetery (where the leg meets the highway)
We booked it and ended up getting there in less than an hour beating the boys by 20 min!
All in all, we felt good. Still had fuel in the tank. Feel better about our training. And not too sore today!
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