Tomorrow morning begins a 5 day backpack trip to the infamous Wind River Range in Wyoming.  No mountain range compares to this one for prime backpacking and fly fishing.  I’ll be eating lunkers in no time! After this week’s Jupiter Peak Steeplechase 16 miler, I came home with some neuritis in my left foot.  The 3rd and 4th toe are numb, but feel ok walking around.  I’ll wear my nice soft La Sportiva Wildcat’s for the adventure, protecting my toes from further damage.   Hopefully this won’t create any issues in 4 weeks when the Wasatch 100 comes into play.  Do bad things come in 3′s?…maybe.  While sitting on my couch watching Mr. Woods win again, a yellowjacket decided he’d sting me. This ain’t good for me, my arm is swollen, I broke out in hives, and my arm itches like hell.  So now what’s next?  Hopefully nothing.  I keep telling myself, [...]

This coming Saturday, I’ll test myself at the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase in Park City, Utah.  This race is a whopping 16 miles with about 4000′ of elevation gain on prime PC singletrack.  I’ve run it before in a little over 2 hours.  I don’t plan on racing real hard, just trying to put in a good 16 miler over the weekend.  Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been running big miles with big vertical.  For the locals here in SLC, that means running over the 11,326′ Pfieferhorn in Little Cottonwood Canyon and connecting Bells Canyon on the backside of Hogum Fork.  I had a brief stop with 14 mountain goats on the ridge.  Old Billie said he’s been watching me, and expects me to go for number 7 at the Wasatch 100 next month.   We’ll see about that as the competition is pretty stiff with Mr. Western, ( Koerner ) Mr. HURT, [...]