2023 Unsupported "Non" Trail Race Unofficial Challenge #12

Granville Reservoir 8 KM (5.0-Miler)

K2 joined me in Granville again.

I began thinking that a worthwhile goal for September through December would be to "field-check" all the trails I have cataloged and mapped in the Granville Reservoir Section around Drake Mountain.

Since I've named most of the obscure trails and paths I've explored, I will use that nomenclature.

Today, I rambled on the following:\

• Round-A-Bout Trail
• Little Perched Rock North Trail
• Turtle Effigy Trail
• Circle Trail
• Winchell Mtn Bike Trail (1st Section)

As I was checking my path of today against my historical routes, I used OpenStreetMap for the baselayer in ArcMap.  Low and Behold, someone has finally loaded up the Drake Mtn and Reservoir Area Trails into the public map.  I've avoided doing this, as it may really introduce the area to the masses, but what will be will be.

Completed 5.0-Miles in 1:17:05.

And, remembering a Musical Life....

Gary Wright, singer of Dream Weaver and Love is Alive, dies aged 80.

Like just about anyone who listened to FM Radio in the mid-70's, those two songs (Dream Weaver and Love is Alive) are etched into our collective mind's soundtrack.

I also really liked those Spooky Tooth albums, which group Gary Wright belonged to.

What I didn't know until reading his obituary was that he played many of the keyboard parts on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" multi album set.