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autumn running
I don’t abide much my astrological mumbo jumbo but Sagittarius that I am has seemed to inclined me to a love of autumn—the cool weather, the orange-tingted palette, the crunch of leaves on the trail beneath my feet. We stumbed into a trail run this past weekend. It wasn’t an intense mountain ultra by any…
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country fly, city fly
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 two Anyone in search of an example of modern evolutionary pressure…
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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…
Category: running & adventure
My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.