Grandeur Peak loop - met up with Jun and Scott at the trail head off 3300 S and they were standing around scratching their heads wondering where Matt VH was, as his car was sitting in the parking lot, but he was nowhere to be seen. A moment later though, down comes a lone runner from the trail - turns out he hadn't been able to sleep and so just headed up early and got a summit in before we started! We then all started back up together. The trail to the summit is a steep, fairly consistent incline for just over 2 miles before you hit the summit. I could see Craig until 1.5, and then he just disappeared, topping out about 5 minutes sooner than the rest of us. Jun making the climb up Once on top we took a few minutes to survey the scenery and take in the beautiful sunrise and changing leaves. Craig decided that he didn't have time to do the entire loop (he really did, I think he was just tired....ha, kidding, of course), so he headed back down the trail we had just come up while we dropped down the east trail.  From the summit looking east While the west trail is steep and a bit of a slog - you gain over 3000 ft of vert in just over 2 miles - but it was well worth that price to run down that east trail into Millcreek Canyon. Wow. The trail was a pleasure to run down, and the morning sun and turning leaves made it dang near magical. Ha ha.  After a bit of running along the ridge and side of the mountain, you duck down into the trees and work your way along towards the Pipeline trail. This section was a blast and I just let gravity do its job and pull me down the hill. I just got a new camera so I was testing it out by just snapping a ton a pictures to see how they'd turn out while I was running.  
Once we got to the pipeline trail, we took it west for a few miles then dropped down at Rattelsnake Gulch where we ran down to Millcreek canyon road, running that to Wasatch and back north to the car. Overall it was a shade under 11 miles, took about 2:30 - it took almost as long to climb the frist two miles as it did to run the last 8! Super fun day on a fantastic trail.
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