ONE Pax lined up at the start of a steamy morning, Rockwood Park-style, for the latest edition of The Clinic Morning Wood. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the walkers sauntering counter-clockwise around the loop, the following might have happened.
Arrive 5:45, having scouted the AO on Friday. Proceed to the new meeting spot. Plant the flag.
5:50. Stretch.
5:55. Listen to the crickets. Stretch.
5:59. Really? Not one guy? No worries. The Clinic takeover has begun.
6:00. Run the loop. Start with the Solid White Dash loop (or, YHC thinks that’s the one).
Route: Head from the parking spot along the gravel driveway-ish thing to the second entrance gate. Stay on the asphalt path, dodging minor fallen branches. Eventually, arrive at the Nature Center. Continue on various permutations of the asphalt paths and / or the park look until 6:25.
6:26…arrive at the shovel flag.
Number, name, and YHC took himself out…
NMS: It’s the Homegrown Half day, but still…zero PAX? That’s an AO left unguarded. With a new Q. Who is a first-time PAX at the AO. And, with that, the right to Q anytime YHC shows up going forward has been invoked in perpetuity. This does not happen often (probably, it should never happen). But, given how often YHC hits Morning Wood (1st time), it’s a good little spot. That said, YHC thinks maybe 2016/17 or super early ‘18 was the last time we left a PAX to Q a new-to-them AO alone. YHC will look for the old BB. Heaven’s Gate or Green Acres in DaVille, if memory serves.
UpChuck spits the bit.
