It was late July when I came across Kahtoola’s Keep Ultrarunning Weird, a short film about ultrarunning and the TransRockies Run that gave me such a profound sense of yearning that I signed up for an ultramarathon—the San Luis Obispo …
It’s been stated more than once that 2018’s TransRockies Run was the best yet. And in the fourth year of our Race for the Rockies team giveaway, we sponsored an incredible duo in Blake Burket and Jessica Carroll (pictured here …
In the one, short-lived phase of my life where I can say I truly loved running, the furthest I ever ran was 13 miles—not even a half marathon. Upon finishing, I told myself “never again,” a vow I’ve since kept. …
The smooth blue ice of the Owl River stretches out in front of me as my dog Buck and I haul heavily laden sledges across the Arctic wilderness of Baffin Island. The frozen river is flanked by jagged peaks of …
I used to think that having multiple sclerosis was all about loss. And all about acceptance of that loss. The best analogy for how it feels to have a neural traffic jam in the c-spinal cord is the way you …
In 1998, after 30 long years, the Mexican gray wolf was reintroduced to Arizona’s Blue Range Primitive Area. And nearly 20 years to the day, I stood on the rimrock of Aldo Leopold’s Green Fire site and put the final …
What is Intrepid? Intrepid Academy at Hale is an outdoor semester day school for Boston Public Schools students held at Hale, a 100-year-old outdoor education organization in Westwood and Dover, MA, with more than 1,100 acres of woodlands, ponds, and …
I come from the flatlands of Northeast Ohio. The largest hill where I grew up had approximately 30 feet of vertical relief. And it happened to be in the town’s cemetery. That didn’t stop me and my friends from sledding …
In 2016, when I was thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, I stopped for a few hours to swim at a lake in New York. I overheard boys in canoes taunting and daring each other to do something by screaming, “Don’t be …
On Valentine’s Day, a group of runners visited Havasupai with the greater mission of preventing uranium mining. Roughly 170 miles west of Flagstaff, nestled in the western edge of the Grand Canyon, lies the village of Supai, home of the …