Tag: mountain 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...
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...
Complete Enchantments Loop, Car to Car
Some days I just feel lazy. Like lead, but with more natural affinity for a sofa. This afflicts me often, or on most days even. Like there...
Running Around Broken Top
Man, what a hiatus. This summer has been a rough one. I’ve been inside, doing the hard work of becoming a doctor by undergoing the...
Breckenridge Crest Half Marathon
The “Breck Crest” is a 20-year Breckenridge, Colorado footrace tradition described as “quintessential...
Mt St Helens Worm Flows Speed Attempt
With Mountain Lessons contributor Peter Innes making his rounds in the Pacific Northwest before retiring to Gothic, CO for the winter, some...