Government anyway.

Corrine and I went for a night training ride to check out the whole shutdown thing around Red Rock. All of the roads and trails are blocked.

Shhhh, you can ride around the fences. The water level in the river down here is extremely low. 

Sunset

Just a couple sunset pictures during/after some beach golfing.

River People

We went for a walk to check out the Des Moines river since it looked pretty low. 

This is the north tail-water.

This is about how far across the river one can walk without getting wet - probably roughly 3/4 of the way.

We found this worm in the parking-lot. It was traveling about 50ft to find some fresh grass.

Sunday

Near perfect weather this morning and a walk on the beach. I'm not sure if the lake pool is a little low but there's a nice chunk of clean sandy shoreline west of the north-overlook beach.

It makes me a little anxious for a draw-down when the hydroelectric plant construction is in process. Then there will be miles of shore like this, and much much wider sections too.

In the afternoon we got out for a mountain-bike ride at Elk-Rock park. It was such a nice day that herds of horses were out. As is typical, half were pretty skittish even with us standing well of the side of the trial. 

Saw some nearly tame deer which were content to just watch a group of 5-6 horse riders go by and then just watch us as well.

Mushroom!

Some great clouds out today, they were stacking up really high.

Eastward Bound

We did some paddling with Nathan and Sara this afternoon and Cody tried a wet-suit equipped test swim. Launching from Elk-Rock's dead-end road, we went under the mile-long bridge for a total of a couple miles or so. It was pretty hot but about right for spending time on the water - even got a small swim in at the half-way. 

Other things that happened earlier in the day:

Baby raccoons got hungry:

I took my racing flats out for a high-speed run. My calves nearly died. 

Mini Hike

Corrine and I made a trip to Red-Rock and got outside for a little while. We hiked on Stu Kuyper Nature Trail next to White-Breast campground. Other than a cold breeze coming in off of the lake, it was a nice day for walking and the sun even popped out for a little bit. 

I think the last time we were on this trail, we were doing some training intervals on mountain bikes. A couple areas have some erosion issues now, with parts of the trail sliding away. Overall a nice little trail that you can cover in under an hour but still see some nice scenery.