Tag: trail running
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...
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...
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...
Putting It On Paper
There’s just something about sitting down in front of a calendar and penning out a training schedule that signals the start of not just a...
Columbia River Gorge: Angel’s Rest to Larch Mt
Spring is in full swing, and that means at least two things: Trails across the Pacific Northwest are drying and calling out to runners...
Marin Headlands Run
On break in San Francisco, I was getting too fat and lazy, immersed as I was in the free-cookies-and-beer world of Air BnB headquarters....