Due to dangerous roads, very low temperatures and dangerous wind chill temperatures I have decided to postpone todays hike. This is the first time I have had to postpone a challenge but it is not worth the chance of injury. I will ride the stationary bike today to keep up my exercise.... NOTE: The missing wind chill readings on the map indicate that ice has stopped the wind speed indicator from turning. Last wind chill reading at Chickasha was 2°..... Postponed due to record cold weather...
Day 37 - Tuesday 02-09-2021 Day 38 - Wednesday 02-10-2021 Day 39 - Thursday 02-11-2021 Day 40 - Friday 02-12-2021 Day 41 - Saturday 02-13-2021 Day 42 - Sunday 02-14-2021 Day 43 - Monday 02-15-2021 Day 44 - Tuesday 02-16-2021 Day 45 - Wednesday 02-17-2021 Updates will be posted when I start hiking again to finish the final 9-days of the challenge..
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Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40 am. Hiked 6.84 miles in 2 hours and 06 minutes. Nice cool morning with lots of mist falling. Weather got colder during the hike. Nothing moving this morning.... The rest of the week will be interesting with the low temperatures forecast.... I hope the ice holds off so I don't have to cancel any of the hikes. Time I guess will tell.... Weather during hike:
Overcast /Mist/Windy Start Temp: 36 End Temp: 29 Windchill: 16 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:35 am. Hiked 6.26 miles in 2 hours and 05 minutes. It was a very damp morning. Very quiet and calm. Nothing was out but me. I did push a couple deer out of their bed.... Nice day for a hike if you don't mind the moisture ... Weather during hike:
Overcast /Mist (wet) Start Temp: 29 End Temp: 31 Windchill: 24 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:35 am. Hiked 6.23 miles in 2 hours and 04 minutes. Damp this morning. Forecast says rain. Quite with no wind. Songbirds were loud and I saw a cedar tree that split a large rock. The forest has a tremendous amount of healing power over me. It is no surprise that its power exceeds that of a bolder..... Another milestone today. The 45-Day Challenge has racked up 200.84 miles of trail so far and I have lost 29 pounds..... Weather during hike:
Cloudy/Mist (wet) Start Temp: 41 End Temp: 38 Windchill: 32 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:35 am. Hiked 6.18 miles in 2 hours and 02 minutes. Uneventful hike this morning. Cold with just a little wind and very cloudy. Songbirds were all that was out and about. Nice day for a hike..... Weather during hike:
Cloudy/Mild Start Temp: 36 End Temp: 38 Windchill: 35 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40 am. Hiked 6.20 miles in 1 hour and 59 minutes. Weather during hike:
Clear/Mild/WINDY Start Temp: 48 End Temp: 42 Windchill: 32 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40 am. Hiked 6.22 miles in 2 hour and 05 minutes. It was a beautiful morning for a hike. The sunrise was something else. No game animals to speak of. Coyotes and songbirds were the primary entertainment. The drive down was very enjoyable. I enjoy the time to think and watching the world wake up. It is my favorite time of the day. My feet are still doing better. I get my booster shot on the 11th. I am hoping the Covid cases continue to drop. I plan on getting out more starting in March. Cooped up long enough..... Weather during hike:
Clear/Cool Start Temp: 38 End Temp: 42 Windchill: 34 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40 am. Hiked 6.07 miles in 2 hour and 03 minutes. Jumped a deer before daylight this morning. Never saw it but it made a lot of noise... Nice cool morning. Feet still doing better.... Weather during hike:
Clear/Cool Start Temp: 41 End Temp: 41 Windchill: 37 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45 am. Hiked 6.10 miles in 2 hour and 05 minutes. Uneventful hike...... Weather during hike:
Partly Cloudy/Cool Start Temp: 35 End Temp: 42 Windchill: 28 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:04am. Hiked 6.09 miles in 2 hour and 05 minutes. Nice cool morning for hiking. I changed the cushions/supports in my hiking boots and my feet are a lot happier this morning...... Weather during hike:
Clear/Cool Start Temp: 34 End Temp: 34 Windchill: 20 (lowest recorded during hike) Weather during hike:
Cloudy/Rain Start Temp: 50 End Temp: 52 Windchill: 46 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40am. Hiked 6.07 miles in 2 hour and 10 minutes. Full Moon (Wolf Moon) lit my way this morning. Songbirds kept me company and coyotes serenaded me. Nice hike but feet are giving me fits...... Weather during hike:
Clear (Full Moon) Start Temp: 32 End Temp: 34 Windchill: 29 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.07 miles in 2 hour and 14 minutes. Vey cold morning on the trail. Good thing the wind wasn't blowing much or it would have been miserable. Song birds were plentiful and I saw one whitetail doe on the way back to the trailhead. Feet are still giving me problems but I have avoided blisters so far. Weather during hike:
Cold, Partly Cloudy Start Temp: 21 End Temp: 27 Windchill: 19 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.09 miles in 2 hour and 04 minute. Very cold morning but beautiful gray clouds made for a great view for my hike. Heard a coyote when I first started my hike and head a few song birds during the morning but the wind had everything else hunkered down. Trail was empty. I guess everyone else was smart enough to stay home... Weather during hike:
Cold, Partly Cloudy and Windy Start Temp: 27 End Temp: 29 Windchill: 15 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40am. Hiked 6.09 miles in 1 hour and 57 minutes. Uneventful morning. Very cold wind in my face most of the hike. Not much moving and the trail was lonely. Today marks halfway through the 45-Day Challenge. Made my goal of a pound per day at 24... We will see how the rest of the challenge goes. Blood pressure is better but still need to get it down a little more... Weather during hike:
Cold, Clear and Windy Start Temp: 29 End Temp: 30 Windchill: 23 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:40 am. Hiked 6.05 miles in 2 hour and 06 minutes. Very foggy morning. At the end of the hike some sun was trying to peek though but most of the morning was a foggy mess. Rain over night made the trail a little messy but not bad. I met a skunk on the trail before daylight but was able to make him out before I got too close. He did leave me a small calling card but just enough that I knew he was there. Weather during hike:
Foggy/Overcast Start Temp: 40 End Temp: 42 Windchill: 34(lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.01 miles in 1 hour and 49 minutes. Foggy, foggy this morning. No one else on the trail and if there was game out I didn't see them for the fog..... Driving both way this morning was interesting with all the idiots that were driving with their lights off.... Someone needs to tell them that they have to turn on their headlights when it is foggy because the lights will not come on in the fog when they are on automatic...... Weather during hike:
Foggy/Overcast Start Temp: 51 End Temp: 51 Windchill: 51 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:30am. Hiked 6.06 miles in 1 hour and 56 minutes. I got an early start this morning trying to eat the rain but the fog rolled in and I got wet anyway.... Beautiful morning for a hike. Met several other hikers on the trail. Extremely quiet this morning. Songbirds were talking and I was greeted by a Barred Owl first thing on the trail. Weather during hike:
Foggy/Overcast Start Temp: 41 End Temp: 41 Windchill: 35 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.05 miles in 2 hour and 02 minutes. Foggy cool morning on the tail this hike. Ran into several whitetail deer along with my usual songbird buddies. Feet and ankles are doing better. 115 miles under boot right now..... Weather during hike:
Foggy/Overcast Start Temp: 42 End Temp: 42 Windchill: 34 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:35am. Hiked 6.04 miles in 2 hour and 06 minutes. Not much wind this morning but the wind off of Lake Lawtonka was cold. No big game on the trail this morning but lots of song birds to keep me company. My ankles and feet are doing better, which makes my hike time go down. Lots of gun shots coming off of Lawtonka and Ellsworth this morning. The duck hunters must be having some luck. Also, a lot of gun fire from the small arms range at Ft. Sill. Good day for any and all activities..... Weather during hike:
Cloudy Start Temp: 45 End Temp: 43 Windchill: 41 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:55am. Hiked 6.10 miles in 2 hour and 07 minutes. I started off my hike in the dark and saw several shadows moving across the path in front of me. These were ghostly figures moving very quickly across my path. I couldn't make out what they were until I saw the tell, tell sign of a white flag waving back at me... The sure sign of a whitetail deer. It is amazing how fast and quiet they can move through the forest.... I saw several other deer later on down the trail. Today also marks the milestone of 102 miles hiked in the 45 Day Challenge.... Weather during hike:
Cloudy Start Temp: 40 End Temp: 39 Windchill: 33 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.02 miles in 2 hour and 04 minutes. I saw a cow elk this morning. We were both trying to use the same trail. She finally gave up and ran off with her nose up in the air. Wind was definitely cold coming off of Lake Lawtonka. All and all a very enjoyable hike. Covid vaccination is doing good. Arm in not sore but I can tell which arm the needle was stuck in... Weather during hike:
Cloudy/Windy Start Temp: 42 End Temp: 41 Windchill: 31(lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:55am. Hiked 8.06 miles in 2 hour and 45minutes. I didn't see any game animals this morning, just song birds. I hiked longer this morning to kill some time because I had an appointment to get my first Covid vaccination this morning at 11:00am at the Comanche County Fairgrounds. Back to the trail in the morning.... Weather during hike:
Clear/Light SW Wind Start Temp: 39 End Temp: 44 Windchill: 39 (lowest recorded during hike) Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.01 miles in 1 hour and 58 minutes. I came upon a coyote, whitetail deer and longhorn. cattle this morning. I was also serenaded by a Barred Owl. This was one of the best hiking days I have had during this challenge. I met one other hiker on the trail this morning. This morning marks a milestone of completing two weeks of the challenge... Weather during hike:
Cloudy/Gray Start Temp: 43 End Temp: 45 Windchill: 37 (lowest recorded during hike) Cold clear morning today. Started hiking the Mt. Scott Service Road Trail this morning at 6:45am. Hiked 6.04 miles in 2 hours and 4 minutes. I did not see any big game animals but the ducks and Hunters were thick at Ellsworth lake. Heard a lot of shotgun blast starting at daylight. Did see a runner and two walkers on my way back to the trail head. No cars parked at the trailhead so they must nave been going the 5.5 miles to the west trailhead so someone could pick them up. Feet are doing better but sure o stiffen up a lot by the time I get home... Weather during hike:
Clear Start Temp: 31 End Temp: 36 Windchill: 25 (lowest recorded during hike) |
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