Sorry about the Interruption

I know it has been a spell of inactivity on the blog and without going in to a great deal of detail about how my old computer crashed and how it took me a long time to get around to retrieving the blog from bowels of the dead files department and  that I  had some problems both personal and health that I  will not go into.  I will take this time to say "If anyone has anything of interest that they think would be useful or informative  I will be more that happy to publish it to the blog..So with that being said let's get back to blogging .  Gaines

Another Cold Day on the Trail

This post is so cold it had to be written in Blue. Went for a walk to check the trail out at about 11 am. The trail had began to thaw out just a little where the sun could see the ground . The footing was not bad  but, care is needed. Pinecone Trail is next to impassable the standing water still blocks the trail in places and that  standing water is ice. Some places you will have to leave the trail and make your way through the brush. So stay on the other trails and you will be ok. The view from the footbridge is very nice with the frozen water and the different vegetation that somehow manage to suvived the freezing temperatures. Saw no animals, guess the deer and others are lying low in the brush trying to keep warm and are not up and moving.
               Here are a few pictures of the walk

Ice on the Pinecone Trail

Lone Runner braving the cold

Cat-tails

Last Summer Hornet Nest

View across the wetlands

Cold Day on the Trail

 Burrrrrrr. 25 deg, Wind chill about 15 deg.

Sure was a cold day to be starting another year on the Cotton Wood Trail.

This trip to the CW trail was a hike/picture shoot day. There were a few brave souls out there this morning which were the regular running group  of Scott,Sandy and Jack.

There was also a lady riding a bicycle and a man walking his dog. So here are a few of the photos along the trail.

Wet Day at Cottonwood

Was a rainy and wet day for a run but , decide to go for it anyway. The rain seemed to be easing off for a while . So Steve a I started out the footing was not too bad and the mist was lifting a little . We had parked at the Beechwood Trail head and did the upper loop to the ball fields first then out to the end of the trail . Steve was having a little trouble with his glasses fogging up and was busy at times trying to wipe and keep them clean of the moisture.
Once at the end we did our usual loop of Beaver Dam trail then headed for the bridge over the wetlands and up and down Highland trail and back across the bridge and finished up coming back in Pine Cone trail. The run is about 4 1/2 miles . Like ever run when it is over you glad you did it. Real enjoyable run today.

Here are a few pictures not the best but conditions were not either..

The Cottonwood Trail

The Cottonwood Trail in 118 acre nature preserve located near spartanburg High School on Lawson Fork Creek in Spartanburg, SC. It is part of the Edwin M. Griffin Nature Preserve.

The Spartanburg Area Conservance ( SPACE) was founded in 1989 by citizens concerned about the losss of green areas and open spaces in Spartanburg County initial funding for SPACE was provided by the Spartanburg County Foundation. It is a no-profit organization with a volunteer Board of Trustees. More information is available on the SPACE link. One of the purposes of this blog is to help runners , hikers, walkers , cyclist and anyone that might enjoy the use of the Cottonwood Trail by reporting trail condition and events about the trail.