Goofing Off in the Foothills

Deer Creek Canyon park has some great trails in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies above Denver.  These hills are only 10 miles away from Green Mountain that I had run the day before, yet the trails are totally different.

I climbed to the top of the rock shown in the picture above and took a little vid:

Sorry, google is turning into Microsoft and nothing seems to work anymore, but here is a link to the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9EhnkncikQ

There were several trails that were "hikers only", which is cool because trail runners are basically like hikers, except faster, and better looking.

A little clinic on downhill running: Flail your arms as if you were a chicken with it's head cutoff(because chickens have arms).  Keep a continual look of sheer terror on your face.  And let the legs fly!  See:

Sorry, google is turning into Microsoft and nothing seems to work anymore, but here is a link to the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgpVRnQ0vFI

Oops, how did that picture get here?

And that is the end to one of my most narcissistic posts to date.  Yay.