Running
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...
Golden Ultra Vertical K, 4th, 49:05
A few weeks ago while planning a trip to Golden, BC, for my mother in law’s 70th birthday, I googled something along the lines of...
Mt St Helens Loowit Trail In-A-Day
Taylor needed a goal to get her out and hiking as she rehabilitated from shoulder surgery. Hiking isn’t very intrinsically...
Mississippi Head Run
It’s been damn smoky around these parts lately, with an explosive fire blooming in the Columbia River Gorge that has choked us all...
Mt Olympus
Mt Olympus is one of the most imposing peaks on the Salt Lake City skyline, and also one of the most popular. It’s West Slabs, which...
Mt Kessler
With Taylor back in Portland and my parents off to Iceland for a few weeks, I’m left to my own devices here in the Wasatch. Despite a...
Gobbler’s Knob and Mt Raymond
Having road biked up Guardsman’s pass and ridden horses around Silver Summit, a wanted to squeeze in another big day before she had...
Pfeifferhorn and White Baldy
Because she’s amazing and wonderful, my wife Taylor somehow managed to get time off from work to join me out in Utah for almost a...
Pfeifferhorn
I’m in Utah now for a month of emergency medicine at the University of Utah, trying to persuade them to take me as one of the nine...
Shorts: Hydrating for Running
Seated at my computer in the ICU, I chuckled out loud while reading an interview with Kilian Jornet and Emilie Forsberg. When the nurse...