I have butterflies. That is a good thing. It’s been a while… Washington Where to start? How about the blackness of night? The pouring rain? The collective pull-together as people […]
Magic Mountain, Kool Aid Lake and Squamish 50m
My bags are mostly packed for Nepal via New York, Hong Kong and Dhaka. The Annapurna Trail Race is coming up and other adventures await. I leave on Tuesday. I’m […]
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Challenge Report
My feet crash through the branches that I am standing on and suddenly I am a foot and a half shorter. I’ve kept my balance by holding onto other branches […]
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Challenge Attempt #1
Hopefully I will be updating this page sometime next week reporting a fun, yet challenging, traverse of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. (Update: Please see my trip report posted in a […]
White River 50 miler
It was a wet and cloudy 50 miles this weekend. The best part was seeing friends Yassine Diboun and Matt Palilla take 2nd and 3rd place. Actually I didn’t see […]
Lost and Found
We met in a little bike shop in the Adirondacks 25 years ago. I won’t say it was love at first sight…but there was some attraction. You had fancy aluminum […]
Playing Catchup
What I’ve been up to in the Northwest June 1st – July 10th: High Divide Trail Olympic National Park Adventure Run 26m Joined up with Brandi Garcia. We ran from Boulder Creek […]
And the earth moved…
My last real post was six months ago – about the Annapurna Trail Race and my attempt to set a fastest known time. When I wrote that – I was […]
The Annapurna Circuit: Going round and round.
Hour 62: I’ve been running, walking, stumbling for the past 62 hours and it has been 19 since my last nap – 2 hours of blessed downtime wrapped up in dirty […]
Mount Hood Mashup: Climbing and slogging around the beast. 32:56
Matching jackets and head lamps with Matt Palilla Half way down after a successful summit. I lived in Oregon from 1998-2004 while going to grad school and working on my […]