Nose to the Grindstone Time

I made it out of the house in the late afternoon and headed over to Deer Canyon in Laguna Coast Wilderness. I have this love/hate relationship with Deer Canyon. My love is that it’s a lot of single track with some exceptional views. My hate is it’s a run that is down down down into a canyon. Which means up up up back to the car.

Did I say exceptional views?

Did I say up up up? Here’s the trail coming back up out of the canyon:

And the elevation profile:

 

I made it out and back onto Red Tail Ridge just in time for this:

Oh to live in Southern California in winter!

Now for the unpleasant stuff:

• Calorie budget: 1530
• Calories consumed: 2066
• Exercise allowance: 3.7 miles, 536 calories
• Too few/(too many): (196)