The Wetlands are Wet Again

Ooops I did it again..... slept in that is. I got out the door about half an hour earlier than I did last weekend Saturday. I had tentatively planned to run down Branch Crossing and do the Alden Bridge loop to get close to 12 miles in. The light on Woodlands Parkway at Branch Crossing had just turned green when I ran past it. I would've had to wait on cars to cross so I just kept going down Woodlands Parkway. I then decided to head on to Flintridge and get in some of the George Mitchell Nature preserve trails and then head back to get close to 12 miles.

I hadn't run in the Mitchell preserve since Hurricane Ike a few months ago. Lots of trees were down but The Woodlands Community Association had the trails all clear. I noticed a couple of new signs since I'd last been in there. They had a sign for "Bike Trails" and later I saw on for "West Trail." I stayed on the "Trail Loop" passing by the sign for "The Wetlands". Father's Day morning was when a few of us took the Wetlands trail in hopes of finding a connection to trails at Creekside Village, the newest village here in The Woodlands. We ended up getting lost for awhile and managed to find thorny vines and chiggers instead of connecting trails. I was right at 6 miles when I saw the "West Trail" sign so I took that to see where it would go. It only went about a tenth of a mile and stopped where the creek banks were too high to cross over. I turned around and retraced my route to get in a 12.2 mile run.