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In early August 1984, Rune and I along with George and Al, two of Rune’s friends made a successful attempt on Montana’s tallest mountain:...

Outside Bozeman, Winter 2022-23 https://outsidebozeman.com/culture/the-new-west/mercury-rising

January 20, 2023 I run with a Garmin with an optical heartrate sensor. It gave me fits for the first 2 months of zone training. It...

January 9, 2023 I slowed down and tried the Lactate Threshold Test 2 more times in the past few weeks. I still haven’t been completely...

December 2, 2022 As I’ve mentioned before, The Uphill Athlete has become my training bible. There is a lot of useful information in...

November 28, 2022 I have confirmed that this training is working at least in one dimension. My runs, though still slow, are now a bit...

November 11, 2022 I was doing great at the end of last week. Two runs in a row indicated that my heart rate was settling into a narrow...

I had planned to share my excitement about running Mt Baldy this week, but the run didn’t go quite as I had hoped. I was going to ignore...

October 26, 2022 I was in my physical therapist’s office the other day telling her about my change to zone training. When I finished,...

October 11, 2022 Monday was another spectacular day in Bozeman. There are lots of trails around here, but there is one mountain biking...

October 9, 2022 We have been having beautiful fall weather here in Bozeman. That prodded me to get out in the mountains to try and apply...

October 1, 2022 I’ve been a runner for my whole life. I love to run. Living in Bozeman, MT, I love being out on the trails putting down...

(8 min read) August 13, 2016, 5:30 AM. On the road across from the College “M” trail parking lot. Southern end of the Bridger Range,...

I ran my second Ridge Run on August 10th, 2019. I had high hopes for putting down a personal record, but it did not go well. I spent...

I ran the Ridge for the third time on August 13, 2022, and took a different approach to my training. I studiously avoided looking at my...

Roberta and Mark live in beautiful Cleanville at the edge of the sea. Today they excitedly open a box containing their new robot vacuum....

January 2023. Each fall I watch the sunsets move further and further south. Across the full length of the Tobacco Roots, then to the...

This story follows Visions of Grandeur: skiing Elephant Couloir. Sharing a basin with Mt Elephant is Mt Blackmore. The north face,...

The north face of Elephant Mountain is visible from town. It stands near the crest of the Gallatin Range. The peak is broad and rounded,...