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cliffs and ladders
Atop a mountain this past summer, backcountry camping for three nights an eight hour hike from civilization, I spent an hour each day keeping up my writing by scribbling narratives of our daily advenutres into my smartphone. This is one of my entries. day one The logic of the warning signs which were hung at
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Local Adventures: Hiking Jura Creek
It’s a long weekend in Canada and so with neither work nor school for anyone on Monday we skipped off to the mountains for some nordic-style fun in the alpine climate. We travel out there quite often. To relax. To hike. To just be somewhere beside home. And we always try to squeeze in at
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vision, start line
Since my modest and cautious update on my knee injury a couple weeks ago, I’ve actually been making some measurable progress in both healing and beginning my re-training. Then a few days later I went to a tour showing of the Banff Film Festival. I’m not clever enough to make a proper film, but I
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Knee-hab (January Update)
I ran last night. Not much. But I ran. Outside. On a trail. And I can still walk this morning. If running three klicks through on a random Thursday evening in January sounds less than impressive, let me introduce you to my Medial Collateral Ligament injury and the fact that I haven’t had a pain-free
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Suburban Ski Day
A sunny Sunday afternoon in January was the perfect day to go check out a few kilometers of trails through a local green (winter white) space in the Edmonton suburbs.
Category: running & adventure
My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.