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Champagne snow, red dirt, and desert solitaire

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Switchbacks are good for the soul. #dowork Snow Canyon: No Knickers Required 50 degrees is the new 80 (in January) Angels Landing: before the going gets tough Approached Angels Landing from visitor center at first light Full pack of Snickers bars required Near Gunlock, UT: endless road, big sky, and no stop lights Gunlock, UT Heading out of Gunlock: the more you climb the better the view. Granite, Sandstone, and Basalt all within a stones throw; the complete package for rock hounds 2016 Giant TCR: hands down one of the best performance builds on the market More rock than you can shake a stick at. A happy bike is like a dog smiling; it happens, you just have to look closely.  Sunrise pre run coffee views; get psyched. Good God it took a lot of effort to get this view. What a gift. My partner in crime.  Luckiest guy on earth. Virgin River Drove the mile long tunnel approximately 3.5 times. Little h

Wasatch Wanderings

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     As Summer turned to Fall it was time to transition from Mammoth Lakes, California to Salt Lake City, Utah.  With incredible access to steep and scenic wilderness, playing outside has kept tempo into what seems to be a long awaited snow fall year.  A lot of time has been spent kicking steps and running in light snow.  With all the snow running and a little nudge from La Sportiva I'm going to have a go at Snow Shoe Nationals taking place in late February.  For a guy obsessed with trying to move efficiently snow shoe running sounds everything but.  But hey, good challenges usually lead to good things.        Below is a sequence of images of recent wanderings in the Wasatch. There are also a couple photos from a scouting trip to the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. I will be doing a story for TrailRunner Magazine this Spring, running the river's edge from the Straits of Juan De Fuca to it's source high up in the Olympic Mountains--tracing the path Sa