I found Wildlife!!

Hola! Just got done processing the pictures from tonight's run up the east side of Wild Horse Canyon. I have no idea on the distance, again, but the topo map is here.
This time i went to the right side of White Mountain Road, starting from roughly the intersection of I80 and White Mountain road on the map. The view from the parking lot gives a little perspective, went up the road about a 1/2 mile and cut up a bare spot in the hill. The "path" was just a water drainage spot which turned out to be a lot steeper than it looked.
This translated to a lot of run/walk/bear running up the side as it got steeper. The Image below shows the view about 3/4's of the way up, roughly 500' of climb
I Cheated a bit in this one and used a red arrow to show the hotel/starting point, so it's definitely a ways up. Also the drop off that shows up at the bottom of the frame is the way i came up.

After i hit the top I did some running around, fairly aimless and saw three of the wild horses that are in the area. They were more scared of me, and a lot faster so the only picture was too blurry to use, next time. I did however find an elk hanging out at the top, so I proceeded to run after it and actually get a decent photo.
Not sure how scared it was of me because i was able to follow it for about 5 minutes with the white tail visible in the right image below.
About this time the light started to die on me so I had to head down. Surprisingly going down, was harder than going up because i could see where i was going if i fell, that and I didn't plan ahead enough so the path down was snow covered.
The last view is of the hotel as I started my run and or stumble and hop down the Canyon Wall. Based on the topo map and rough idea of the area, I figure its about 2.5 to 3 miles and 1000 to 1200' of elevation. The overall route ran around the horseshoe to the peak to the right of Riverview Cemetery, then back on the loop to the peak over the Interstate and then down. It was a good run, and I'll definitely be doing it again and hopefully running more of the initial 500' climb. The last view is of the hotel as I started my run and or stumble and hop down the Canyon Wall. Based on the topo map and rough idea of the area, I figure its about 2.5 to 3 miles and 1000 to 1200' of elevation. The overall route ran around the horseshoe to the peak to the right of Riverview Cemetery, then back on the loop to the peak over the Interstate and then down. It was a good run, and I'll definitely be doing it again and hopefully running more of the initial 500' climb

Finally outdoors for a real run

I'm back, and outdoors, again, which is amazing and excellent all at once. This run wasn't spectacular, actually it was incredibly painful. For some reason while being in Jacksonville my allergies flared, so that combined with the first day back up at elevation combined to make it hard to breathe. But enough with that, the route's a simple one with a 300 foot climb to end.

So here it is, I'll call it the early towner just because i don't know the area at all yet.