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View looking down Hyalite Canyon The Hyalites have always been one of my favorite outdoor venues around Bozeman. I have long considered...

The Ridge Run is now behind me. The intensive training is over. It’s time to use all this fitness I’ve earned and play. I’ve gotten...

After a long nauseating trip bouncing up Fairy Lake Road, we arrive at the starting area for the 2023 Ed Anacker Bridger Ridge Run, a...

The Ridge, looking north from Mt Baldy The Ridge Run is this Saturday, August 12, 2023. Tuesday was my last training run, and during...

Electric Peak in the distance I ran/climbed 10,969-foot Electric Peak in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone on Friday, (7/28/2023),...

I’ve felt this before, but never for this long. My body feels like it is in a state of Zen. Mellow, relaxed, healing; all those...

Sister Annette just called. They finally got plane tickets. Her family, my sister Janet and her extended family, are all coming to town...

Early July, 1983: We awoke to brilliant blue skies on the third morning of our journey. The first two days had been stormy. First came...

Outside Bozeman, Summer 2023 https://outsidebozeman.com/training/skills-safety/first-aid/outdoor-abcs

It’s getting HOT out. I know the heat here is generally less intense than back east where the combination of heat and humidity is...

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything new. My depleted body caught a bug after the Old Gabe 30K. On top of that my wife Terry...

June 10, 2023. We had congregated behind the starting line for the Big Sky Wind Drinkers' Old Gabe 30K and 50K trail races at the Middle...

When we are out on adventures, we no longer talk to the folks we meet about the Great White Father in the East, nor do we hunt and trap...

As I’ve gotten older, I have begun to understand the fascination with finding a fountain of youth. Tales have been spun of waters that...

As of Spring 2023, my medical training had been limited to watching the occasional hospital show that I am certain provides an entirely...

Well I did it. I completed months of zone training through a Montana winter. Sure, I trained inside when the weather was bitter cold, I...

I lived in Maryland for 21 years and commuted more than an hour each way to work. During that time I stayed fit by training for and...

As we drove along Spanish Creek I found myself saying aloud, “Wow, they paved this all the way in.” Terry replied, “You knew that, are...

Spring is coming in fits and starts to Montana. Last week, the ice fields finally melted off the roads, this week we got 2 feet of new...

It was late July in the Summer of 1977. I was living at my parents’ house in New Jersey at the time, and Marty, a friend that I had made...