The Fog Dodgers invite all residents and visitors of the Mendocino Coast to join us on our weekly group runs and walks. We have runners and walkers of all abilities (and even some bikers) and we have only one "rule" - we start at exactly 8:00 a.m. on Sundays. Exercise at your own pace (1/2 hour out, 1/2 hour back) and experience the fresh Mendocino coastal air.

Fog Dodgers provides a fun, safe way to explore some of our local trails and back roads and to meet new friends. You can find out where we're going to be by reading the bottom of last week's post, then clicking on the "Our Routes" tab above. We average 15-20 persons each Sunday and typically half will go to breakfast together afterwards at a nearby restaurant.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

CASPAR LOGGING ROADS

We ran and walked the Caspar Logging Road (Jackson State Forest Rd. 500).  It was chilly, 39, when we started but after warming up, it felt just right.  It was a beautiful morning.

Caspar Bay

We followed our run/walk with our Annual Pot Luck Breakfast and Cookie Exchange.  Since some could make the run/walk but not breakfast or breakfast but not the run/walk, I'll just list all names that were present today.  There was:  Dorothy, Fran, Jim, Gay, Mark, Bob, Cheryl, John, Charlene, Ron, Toni, Zelda, Nancy B., Rick, Shari, Peter, Nicole, Noah, Reya, Serena, Nancy, Tom (22).

Caspar Robin


The Fog Dodgers had a wonderful breakfast at Mark and Gay's today.  Nicole brought Noah and the kids, Reya and Serena.  It was really fun to have the kids experience the Fairy Tree House and Giant Swing.  Actually, not just the kids but all of us enjoyed it!  Thank you very much, Mark and Gay, for a great morning!

Caspar Llama, thanks, John, for all of today's photos.
Next week, we will run and walk at Mendocino.  We tried this once before and it was well received.  On this one, you can run/walk along the bluff-top single track, all around the headlands, or you can run/walk on Heeser Drive and if you're running, we usually cover most of the town's through streets.  What you make of it, is completely up to you!

We've become a group of "old" people. Sorry folks, and yes, I'm one of them.  We started out 20 years ago as a running group of middle aged and have just evolved.  It was very nice to have Nicole with us today and her family.  I've encouraged her to invite some of her friends that run and I'd like for everyone, to try to invite anyone, especially younger folks, to join us.  It would make us a much better group.  I will try putting up an invite on the C.V. Starr bulletin board, maybe get some of those folks off of the treadmills and onto the trails!

Sunday, Dec. 24th, Group Run and Walk,  Lake Cleone, starting right in the parking lot at Lake Cleone, MacKerricher State Park.  You can run/walk from there in all directions.

Sunday, Dec. 31st, Group Run and Walk, POMO BLUFFS - HARE CREEK (see "Our Routes" above)


NEXT SUNDAY, SUNDAY DEC. 17TH @ 8:00 A.M.: MENDOCINO HEADLANDS AND AROUND THE TOWN.  MEET AT THE HEESER DRIVE RESTROOMS. You can read more about this venue two paragraphs above.

Roger has updated "Our Routes" at the top of the page, thanks Roger!  When you look and see how many different options we have, you wonder why we keep doing the same ones over and over.  Well, there are little glitches with each route and I tend to pick whatever seems to please most of us.  Be sure to let me know if there's one that you want to try again.   Roger has all of the maps looking really good  and it will help us all get to the right starting points.  

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN @ 7:00 A.M.: MENDOCINO HEADLANDS AND TOWN.  These mid-week runs beging at the restrooms on Heeser Dr.
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