Another beautiful run

Tuesday evening Meredith and I went running and explored a new trail with a killer hill that took about five minutes to climb, but gave a great view of the city and surrounding hills. The trail continued farther along the fencelines of neighboring farms, and several were labeled as bike trails, making me even more anxious to buy a bike. We figured out that the trails led somewhere near the Allee Jean-Charles Varennes, where I usually run.

We went out tonight to run for a little over an hour and started in the direction of the Varennes trail. I wanted to see if we could find a way to connect the two trails, so when we came to a side trail marked Ferme des Reaux we turned onto it and into a narrow wooded path that dipped and rose and then turned rocky and climbed further until we were standing on the side of a grassy hill looking over the farms in the valley and the sun setting over the hills.

We kept running uphill farther, crossed a road, and eventually found ourselves in the farm fields, where Meredith fortunately recognized the trail that would take us back to Tuesday's starting point. Instead of taking the same way back however, he wanted to explore a side trail. Really, it would be almost impossible to get really lost out there; you can see the city from anywhere and all you need to do is go downhill, so we turned onto the narrow trail. It started out flat and rocky, and turned steep and rockier until eventually it seemed to just be a drainage ditch for water running down the hill! Even the large rocks were loose and the sides of the path sloped sharply toward the center so I stuggled to just walk it. It was very slow going but eventually I joined Meredith at the road of the bottom of the hill. The sign posted there needs no English translation: Passage dangereux.