Run 182 - Finishing up Alkali Creek area

June 29, 2024

It was a great morning for a run with the temperature in the mid-40s with clear skies and no wind.  Shelley and I met at the intersection of Strawberry and Alkali Creek and, leaving one vehicle there, drove to the High Sierra dog park to start our run.  The route indicated it would be 5.26 miles and this was the first time we did the “drop one car at the other end” routine.  The route map:

The run from the dog park to Alkali is about 3/4 mile and one we’d done in the past.  When we got to Alkali Creek, we turned left.  There was a surprising number of other runners out this morning.  They must be the fair weather type as through all our through winter runs we rarely see anyone else out.

Alkali Creek is narrow with not much of a shoulder to run on but the scenery is nice with rimrocks lining the way.

Our first stop was a new housing development called “the Timbers.  The streets are in but only a few houses.  Here’s what we saw there:

We were at the end of that street with that big house, shown above, and thinking how nice it was here until we heard the roar of a jet engine.  I pulled up the satellite view of where we were and the airport runways are just above us, beyond the nearby ridge.

We continued down Alkali.

We had a long out-and-back on Woodland.  WOW!  It’s a serious hill.  It wound to the left before it flattened out a bit.  I was hoping to see a No Trespassing sign so we could turn around but the only ones were marking the adjacent land, not the road.

Two short out-and-backs on Tomahawk and Pine Tree.  We stopped to look at garage sale between them.  Then it was out-and-back on Sun Valley.  The road went up a ways but we turned around at the No Trespassing signs.

It was a short jaunt back to where we’d left one car on Strawberry which gave us a perfect distance top today’s run.