I have adopted a roadless area!  Now I just need to plan a trip to go visit it and take lots of photos.  Check out the map below:

Fall trail running on Mount Spokane

I would probably hardly run at all if not for trail running, so whenever I have a chance I go up to Mount Spokane to run on the trails up there.  In the summer the mountain trails allow me to escape the summer heat.  This time of the year they allow me to escape the monotony of the roads (the trouble with coaching high schoolers is that we're stuck running around the school every day), plus I get to watch the changing of the seasons.  This year I kept returning to the mountain to capture the changing larch trees.

I started out too early for much color.  This was taken on October 17th on Horse Mountain.

This was taken the same day; the color was a little better on the other side of the meadow, but not much.

The color had really improved by the time I ran trail 110 on October 25th.

By November 7 the colors were really spectacular.  This one was taken from near the lower entrance to the Mount Kit Carson Loop Road.

However, by November 8 everything was looking pretty much the same color!