The goal today was to run about six miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. Snow Flake and I had done ten miles at Holcomb Valley the day before and we were both pretty beat up. On top of that we had a late start to the morning. We did accomplish six miles along the creek …
There is a place I love to run at sunset. It sits at about seven thousand feet and you have glorious views of the valley below this forest as the sun crashes into the clouds and the ocean many miles in the distance. There is a tiny alpine lake and when I run …
I think I just had my first tick episode. I was driving in the mountains and I made a move to brush something off my leg and found that the something was embedded in my skin, wretched it out, painfully, and am now seriously wondering if that was a tick. I have no idea …
A year ago, I watched as my good friend Johnny ran up a steep mountain side. His girlfriend Alicia, one of my very best friends, and I were hiking on the journey to Craft’s Peak, way behind him. I cannot believe your boyfriend is running that; he’s crazy!” I told Alicia, shaking my …
You know that feeling when you accomplish something you have been dreaming of? Running a marathon, losing weight, getting that new job, it could be any of those. Today was a little goal for me, I found Bluff Lake Reserve, this really cool nature reserve about a hour from my house. I had been reading …