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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Brown Mountain Open!!!!!!!!!! (almost, but close enough)

Go sing it on the mountain! Brown has risen! It’s not open all the way to the top quite yet but it’s so close. I was just up there this afternoon for the first time in a year and a half plus. I just thought I’d check for updates on the Forest Service website today and saw that they’ve opened up quite a bit of the mountain. Based on their map of what was open it didn’t look like the trail to Brown was open so I wasn’t expecting much. So I was on Mindful Mule and was a little unprepared for the openness of it all – it just kept going up and up and up. But, you know, Mindful Mule is still a fine trail bike, she is, and we had a fucking ball up there. It is so beautiful. Flowers everywhere. Lupine. Lotus. Mimulus. The once double track road has narrowed to single track with all the flowers and little use. I had no strength in my legs still from last weekend’s run but the mountain pulled me to the top. To the almost top. The trail is closed a couple miles short but you get almost everything that you could ask for. It felt so great to be back up there. I can’t even believe I’m writing this. It all felt like a dream. Clear my schedule! If anyone asks, tell them I’m on Brown Mountain…

7 comments:

JustinM said...

Well, I might not put it quite that way.

mindful mule said...

Brown Mountain is my religion, my church, my god, my soul, and my destiny all wrapped into one and we haven’t seen each other in 20 trying months so that’s why I put it that way.

JustinM said...

Then I wish you nothing but smooth travels on Brown Mountain.

mindful mule said...

Peace be with you.

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MrDaveyGie said...

Your in a good church.

mindful mule said...

Thanks, MrDG. All are welcome…