Ran the Trap dike. Its been really rainy lately and the weather said thunderstorms at 2pm, so this had been about 28 hrs since the last heavy rain. About as good as its going to get! Trail up was quite wet and muddy. A fun new little section of trail leading into avalanche lake. I got a little cliffed out twice on the route up. quite wet in there today, but very fun. looks like i lost 2:30 there... hmpff
I always said that i would swim across if i ever went for this route. seems like a lot more fun than the bushwhack around the backside. I don't know how much time the swim saved. I think training the swim would help alot. When I got out of the lake, I could barely run/walk for the first few minutes.
I think the trails up are slightly longer (from detours and re-routes that have been made recently) than when Jan ran this, so doing the swim mostly equals this out... but again, i could be wrong. I feel like i could go sub 2 on this beautiful super fun route.