Whenever we go into the woods, we take a calculated risk. We recently took a Wilderness First Responder course and our instructor Daz Stokes loved to remind us of the fact that: “The wilderness is a dangerous place. You should never go…
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Trail Running
When I was growing up, “summer” was synonymous “Montana.” My parents were both teachers, so once the final school bell rang they packed up my brothers and I, along with our hiking, biking, and camping gear, and schlepped us out to my Grandparent’s…
Spring is an incredible time in the mountains, where the snow begins to melt and greenery shows itself for the first time since Fall. Although the official season of Spring lasts for three whole months, in the mountains the…
Living in Boulder, perched smack in the middle of Colorado's Front Range, we grew well accustomed to heavily trafficked trails that were often choked with people. It didn't take us long to write Colorado's backcountry off as beautiful, but…
For a little over a week now we’ve been hanging out around Sedona, AZ. Sedona is a small town in northern Arizona known for its beautiful red rocks, excellent trails, and funky desert vibes. Many of the places we…
Last weekend we decided to kick off our first weekend in Montana with a big day in the backcountry. The plan was to hike / run with Hilde from from the Sentinel Creek trailhead up to the top of…
This summer we visited 6 states, drove over 4,500 miles, and had more adventures than we could count. Here are our favorite highlights!…
Over the weekend Sam Ritchie and I embarked on the the Adventure Xstream Series' last event of the 2015: a 24 hour running, biking, and kayaking race through Moab's endless maze of sandstone. Sam and I have both raced…
If you’ve tried to access the blog over the last few days, you were probably met with some sort of error message. We thought we had fixed it last week, but apparently it came back with a vengeance on…
Will and I had planned to kick off our bus trip by running a 50k in Issaquah, Washington. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get the bus finished on time and didn't make the race. When the opportunity to run…