The Ice Age Trail is a 1,200-mile long designated National Scenic Trail located wholly within Wisconsin. The trail approximately traces the boundary of the glacier that existed here ~12,000 years ago, winding through 30 counties from the St Croix River on the Minnesota border to Potawatomi State Park in the town of…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/8044430399 I signed up for Javelina Jundred as soon as registration opened on January 1, 2022. I had first heard about this “ultra Jalloween party” in the desert from my 2019 Ragnar Trail Michigan relay race teammate Jens Lundy. At that time I had run a marathon and…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/7755631622 Two days after climbing Mt Bierstadt, Mt Evans, and the Sawtooth Traverse linking them together I met up with another friend I met through the #30daysupsidedown handstand challenge to tackle my 8th and 9th Colorado fourteeners. Ryan (@nekoboushikun on Instagram) and I chose to do the Mount…
***Update: Mt Evans was renamed Mount Blue Sky in 2023. Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/7743757451 This story starts with an Instagram #30daysupsidedown handstand challenge started by some mountain-climbing Coloradans that I follow. I was going through some things in life then and I figured that having something as random as practicing handstands…
The primary purpose of this trip was to complete Wildland Hydrology‘s River Morphology and Applications (“Rosgen Level II”) training as part of my job. I was, however, able to take some vacation days and packed in a lot of trail and mountain fun in the Saturday through Tuesday following the…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/7633913868 South Sister Summit was a climb that almost didn’t happen. After my week in Bend for a work training I had Saturday through Tuesday to explore the Pacific Northwest and with so much to do and see out there I had considered skipping South Sister to build in…
Strava link (2021 run): https://www.strava.com/activities/5793766145Strava link (2022 run): https://www.strava.com/activities/7443086354Strava link (2023 run): https://www.strava.com/activities/9159029820 The format for this blog post is different as I’m covering three separate day trips that I took in different years, but since the destination is the same Canadian provincial park I decided to group them together…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/7233646594 The heavy rains ended at dawn. In the day’s first light, I crawled through my rental car to plop myself into the driver’s seat. I had folded the seats down and spent the second half of the night in the back of the car, encased in assorted…
After a three year hiatus from international travel, primarily due to the pandemic, I was itching for a big solo adventure. I traveled solo abroad in New Zealand and Thailand, both in 2006, but since then all of my trips (while amazing) have been with friends and were mostly focused…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/6726709431 Mount Teide is an active volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and is the highest point on Spanish territory at 12,188′ above sea level. When I began researching a potential trip to the Canary Islands I discovered photos of Mount Teide and soon…