The Yakima 50k ended up taking a lot out of me. Waking up that morning, I was sore, crooked and misaligned from sleeping in the back of my truck. And […]
In Between Adventures
The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Seattle. I run to work in the mornings, through small neighborhoods and the winding trails of Ravenna Park. The wooded trails are […]
Mostly Everest and Whatnots
Hi everyone, just a short note here before I head out for today. First, happy 16th birthday to my niece Claire Englert. Woot woot! I’m sure you will always wear your seat […]
Trek out of Base Camp
The walk out was very strange. First to see the tents being dismantled and barrels loaded onto yaks. Everywhere you looked, across the whole base camp, someone was lifting a […]
A couple summit pics
OK- Many more to come but I’m in a bad internet cafe in Kathamandu and I’ve lost the cord to my laptop. These pics were emailed to me by Oskar […]
The true story of my Everest Toe Nail (ETN)
I recently read Marshal Ulrich’s book ‘Running on Empty’ (http://marshallulrich.com/). The man is an endurance machine and I appreciated the introspection he included. Marshall also had all of his toe […]
Summit Push Recap
[update 5/24: There are a number of summit pictures on: https://picasaweb.google.com/wolpin] I’m not sure how to start this. What a trip! I’m in my tent at base camp, on hold with […]
Descending… sleeping at Camp III
Happy Friday the 13th, SWEETFCers! Kelly here with another update: What a frustrating day for the Blogger website to go down for maintenance! I know a lot of folks have […]
At the top of the world!!!!
What a day, SWEETFCers!Kelly here with very exciting news!!At 5:25am on Friday morning in Nepal, Seth stood on the summit of Everest!!!! I got the briefest of phone calls from […]
The Summit Push!!
SWEETFCers- Kelly here with another update: I heard from Seth around 1:00 this morning, calling from Camp IV. He said it took six and a half hours of jumaring to […]