Danby Down & Dirty Star Posts (2026)

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Use this topic for posts that will collect community stars for the Danby Down & Dirty course. You can also ask questions or make comments about this course.

Here’s how it works.

  • Click the “Post Using This Template” button below to create a new post with a Story heading and boilerplate text.
  • Replace the boilerplate text with your report for one or both sections. The Story header is key for distinguishing between posts and replies—don’t change it.
  • Your post must be on the same calendar day as your run as entered in the leaderboard.

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To pick up a community star, replace this text with a write-up of what your run was like, a photo you took on the run, a link to your Strava track, or something similar. Don’t delete the Story heading above.

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Danby Down and Dirty Delight
(@adamengst Adam, I had trouble with the link to post a story using the template for this course. Trying to hack it now with a Reply to the instructions post)

Feet will get wet and muddy on this course as you run through the stream bed leading to the base of the climb to The Pinnacle. When isn’t it wet here in Spring?

Since I was already here after doing the Abbott Ascent course, it made sense to do the shorter course too. Shortly after turning onto the trail off Michigan Hollow Road, there is a large tree in the trail that requires a little scrambling to get through right now. It is definitely trillium season:

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Second time on The Pinnacle today, sun is lower in the sky but sky seems bluer:

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Thanks—fixed now. Can’t have an & in the template name, apparently. Your manual reply worked fine; it’s just a matter of the first line being ## Story

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This sounds like a Tolkien riddle to which the the answer is: “When it’s wet here in the fall, winter, and summer.”

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:rofl: That gave me good laugh, Pete! But so true!