Street Scramble and Mt Tiger

Here I include the approximate Street Scramble map. The planning of the route was done in 15 minutes and I started early since had to volunteer. 

Number 33 is a tricky one. The stairs are far over your head and I did not see them as I was running around. 34 was "misplaced" - the circle directs you to a construction site and a dialog of "is this a scavenger hunt?" follows. 

16 to 54 - the morning brings the homeless people to the streets, tired people. From 37 I went to 43 as planned - I did not have an idea I had way too much time: my running was slow and I had to doublecheck my watch at approximately 53 to realize this, I even asked Terry whom I met running somewhere there. So 27, then 39 to 42 and 41. From 41 - out and almost back 38, then 52 and to finish as planned, except 24 after 12. 950 points together with like 10 minutes to go. Next time I should measure the distance. Nikolay cleared the course in 1:30 or so. 

Saturday was planned to be Tiger running, but Christi did not want to risk driving on ice and Nikolay bailed out in the last minutes. Well, it was cold: weather.com said 2 degrees Celsius, but feels like 7. I guess up in Tiger it was more plus the winds. And, of course, the humidity of PNW air. 

I wanted to do the 16 miles of Tiger mountain trail, TMT, but what I got can be seen on the right side. My GPS was set to per second recording, so the light blue line does not begin at the parking spot, but it should start there and then jump on the beginning of TMT. 

The first 4 miles were rather runnable, me getting them done in a bit under an hour. Felt very warm going uphill and I removed one of my two shirts (had a small rain jacket on top). At some, probably 1500 feet or so the place became unrunnable. I slowed down and the whole 22.8 km or 14.25 miles were done in 5:10. I guess I was picking up mashrooms in the middle.

The route: I followed TMT including the Lingering loop, up to almost West Tiger 2, but pass that, cross the Hidden forest trail on TMT, pass 8 mile sign, then 15 mile railroad trail to Tiger Mt. main road, that to West Tigers 2 and then 3 and then straight down. 

Started: 11:38, out of the woods just before dark. As I was running down, there were still some people going up. Lots of snow, I was the first on TMT after Hidden forest trail and on logging road till the same Hidden forest trail. 

Clothes: long underwear shirt, long underwear pants, tights on top, light rain jacket. Full skull bicycle hat with a warm wool one when it started to blow hard - I was satisfied with all this, not too warm, not too cold. The feet were a problem though at the latter stages of runhike, when they got completely wet: smartwools sock inside a sealskinz waterproof one in some Solomon not GoreTex shoe with some small gaiters. Some snow outside the socks and some sweat inside them rendered feet rather cold and wet after some 3 and a half hours. On the logging road I managed to step into some puddle under snow. I do not believe I could continue through darkness with such feet, something has to be changed in conditions like these. 

Oh, and if your Camera stays in your car for more than two weeks, check out the batteries, before the trailhead.