[Vision2020] Latah Trail Deserted Because Of Heat Wave?

[Tony Simpson]

TED, good to hear you getting out and braving the heat for a good workout.  Folks who maintain a reasonable degree of fitness are to be commended.  Our culture of sedentary activities and fast food -- our horrendous charge toward middle age diabetes and disability -- is a plague.  But fortunately, one we have the option of avoiding in every case.

Glad to see you setting such a good example to younger folks,    ---Tony
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Moffett 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:00 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Latah Trail Deserted Because Of Heat Wave?


  All-

  Today I decided to take advantage of the beautiful summer weather, hot as we all know, to take a bike ride on the wonderful Latah Trail between Moscow and Troy.  I rode about 12 miles on the trail, stopping a few times under a few of the wonderful trees that line the trail (too bad there are not more!), and enjoyed myself immensely. 

  I also used the bike ride to take advantage of the Moscow Food CO-OP's program to encourage biking, walking or other non-motorized forms of transportation, to punch the special CO-OP card for those using non-motorized forms of transportation to shop, which after purchasing five dollars worth of goods each shopping trip, carried home by the aforementioned non-motorized forms of transportation, earns the card holder after 20 trips a five dollar discount. 

  But what I found surprising, was that during the 90 minutes or so I was on the trail, I did not see another human being, not one, except perhaps for those driving on Hwy. 8.  Well, I could not see the actual human beings in the cars and trucks on Hwy. 8 very well.  But it was a sign that human activity was nearby.  Otherwise I might have wondered if the whole human race had departed to another realm.  A cooler realm, perhaps! 

  Every time I have biked the Latah Trail so far this late spring and summer in the late afternoon/early evening on weekend days, there have been numerous users, on bikes, walking, using strollers with infants and children, etc. 

  Today I had the trail all to myself.  It was nice, in a way, like having my own private bike trail to enjoy the non-human life forms and the beauty of the Earth with no distractions.  Yet odd, insofar as I wondered why a bit of hot weather might drive people away from using the trail. 

  Hey, 100 F. in shorts and tee shirt leisurely and slowly biking on the Latah Trail with some breeze to cool off is a picnic.

  Consider what US troops face in Iraq with 110 F. in the shade while they are covered by all the gear they must wear?

  That's tough!

  Ted Moffett




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