On Sunday, my 37th birthday, Christy and I ran a trail linkup that started at Maroon Lake and finished with a beer and pizza at the Snowmass Mall. Rather than find ourselves in yet another grand birthday outing that’s both physically strenuous and technically elaborate, involving multiple summits and excessive vertical gains, we opted for [...]

Hitting the trail for a quick jaunt up towards Buckskin Pass on Saturday was our first visit to the area since ski season. Some useful route beta for the Maroon Bells area was learned. Here’s the report:
Buckskin Pass and the Four Pass Loop
The only news from down low is that as you pass the wilderness [...]

At least it was hard last Monday. More so than when Richard Betts, an avid trail running friend, sommelier and producer of killer wine and fine mezcal (if there is such a thing it’s called Sombra), and I have completed this trail linkup in years past.
This time was different though. With all of the recent [...]

Well maybe it’s not a true “Dawn Patrol,” by its strict definition at least. But it is Friday and with the approaching summer solstice only 10 days away it’s not really necessary to get moving in the dark, and because it was completed before Christy went into work, we’re filing it under the title above. [...]

With four ski mountains in the area, locals have an unique opportunity to ski them all in one day. The ‘four mountain challenge’ as it has been called, isn’t something that’s done or talked about very much and when it is, there seems to be many different ways it can be executed.  Most of [...]

With six weeks to go before the Grand Traverse, team Lucky No. 9, a.k.a Christy and I, went out to log some miles, skiing a classic interconnect between the two founding huts of the 10th Mountain Hut System, Margy’s and McNamara.
Starting at the Lenado trailhead (8640 ft.), we made our way to McNamara Hut (10,360 ft.), via a [...]