Tag: racing
Ring of Fire 2023
A quick administrative note: I’ve migrated this site to a different host and there have been some changes to the theme and page...
Summer Racing 2019
It’s been rather quiet over here at Mountain Lessons, dear reader, because something happened. We had a kid! Our little girl was born on...
SkiMo Race Report: The Father Dyer Postal Route
A century and a half ago, a minister by the name of John Lewis Dyer journeyed over 1000 miles by horse and by foot from Minnesota to the...
Skimo Racing Vertfest Alpental 2016: 1st Place
The forecast called for temperatures in the 40s. As the weekend approached, the weatherman started calling for one to two inches of rain....
Skimo Racing Vertfest Mt Bachelor 2016: 2nd Place
Last weekend, Taylor and I drove to Central Oregon for the second skimo race of the short PNW season. Mt Bachelor hosts the smallest of...
Kendall Mountain Run Recap
By mid July it was high time to put my summer training to the test. As chance would have it, my dad had notified me he’d be visiting...
Training Cadence for Skimo Racing
What separates fast skimo racers from slow skimo racers? Certainly equipment, technique, transitions, and fueling are all important...
The 2014 GoreTex Grand Traverse (Reverse)
For more than a week now, I’ve struggled against my keyboard to beat out a race report from the GoreTex Grand Traverse (GT), which...
Wasatch Powder Keg 2014
I’m sitting in the Salt Lake City airport , waiting for a flight to Denver. My heart rate is chugging along at 86 bpm, and I’ve...
Vertfest Mt Bachelor Podium
After skin difficulties and some hard-won lessons at Alpental last week, I was both nervous and excited to get back on snow this weekend...