With (most) of snow gone even higher up in mountains, and after spending whole bunch (too much) of time on mtb lately, it's finally time to open proper mountain running season 
I had this route in my mind for long time, but as I was thinking it's just relatively flat undemanding trail around my favorite skimo/freeride mountain in winter, I always postponed it as always something nicer and more demanding came into play. Well yesterday, when I was completely dead from pretty long and hard Saturday's mtb tour, I said this "easy" trail will be just perfect, so it finally happened. First red flag about "easy" should ring bells when I made track and it shower 1000m of ascend in first 7km. But it didn't bother me at that time, so some 14km around mountain should be fairly easy, 1000m of ascend or not, right? 
Start was actually pretty great, and first 4km were really easy run with only 250m of ascend which I didn't even notice, partly also because I was too busy trying to overtake hordes of people on way to first hut.
But next 3km with 800m of ascen were pretty damn bad But at least views were one of nicest you can get around here
Once I reached other side of mountain, and when I thought it was just short easy run down, things didn't get much easier either, but views were still amazing, and looking back at track where I came looked pretty cool too (you can actually see trail over that huge pile of stones and across the wall.
And when I was already wondering if this trail will ever end, there was finally familiar hut in sight (that little part of roof in top left third of photo). From there on it's really only some 3km and 400m down to car.
I know better for next time that maybe it's not bad to check trail a bit more when planning it, not just rely on "i think it shouldn't be much if it's going just around the mountain", and not just dismiss ascend data as oh it can't be that bad But thing is, trail was super nice, views were really amazing, so being more or less dead on the end was just fine. It was worth going around, even if it was "slightly" harder then I expected
I had this route in my mind for long time, but as I was thinking it's just relatively flat undemanding trail around my favorite skimo/freeride mountain in winter, I always postponed it as always something nicer and more demanding came into play. Well yesterday, when I was completely dead from pretty long and hard Saturday's mtb tour, I said this "easy" trail will be just perfect, so it finally happened. First red flag about "easy" should ring bells when I made track and it shower 1000m of ascend in first 7km. But it didn't bother me at that time, so some 14km around mountain should be fairly easy, 1000m of ascend or not, right? Start was actually pretty great, and first 4km were really easy run with only 250m of ascend which I didn't even notice, partly also because I was too busy trying to overtake hordes of people on way to first hut.
But next 3km with 800m of ascen were pretty damn bad
But at least views were one of nicest you can get around here Once I reached other side of mountain, and when I thought it was just short easy run down, things didn't get much easier either, but views were still amazing, and looking back at track where I came looked pretty cool too (you can actually see trail over that huge pile of stones and across the wall.
And when I was already wondering if this trail will ever end, there was finally familiar hut in sight (that little part of roof in top left third of photo). From there on it's really only some 3km and 400m down to car.
I know better for next time that maybe it's not bad to check trail a bit more when planning it, not just rely on "i think it shouldn't be much if it's going just around the mountain", and not just dismiss ascend data as oh it can't be that bad
But thing is, trail was super nice, views were really amazing, so being more or less dead on the end was just fine. It was worth going around, even if it was "slightly" harder then I expected 
