What started at the timberline of Mt Hood and ended in the Pacific Ocean is one of the great events of an American summer. By day, by night, one man was always running. Some waited their turn peacefully in random parking lots, some prepped while others approached, others ran while some slept for stolen minutes. …
Hood to Coast. From Mt Hood’s timberline, a team of 12 runners with 2 vans and 2 drivers sped to the West Coast on sneakers, a mere 197 miles away. GORUCK sponsored Portland Track Club with some gear and a runner, and everyone enjoyed every second of the coolest relay race imaginable. Camaraderie was very …
The route is set for the GORUCK Challenge in San Fran. Ocean running, stairs, natural obstacle courses, city running through billions in real estate and the big bridge in the background of wet shoes all play an important part. Oh yeah, and Zeitgeist downtown the night before for some ruckoff camaraderie. It’s meant to be …
San Fran played a perfect host to Al Green’s love songs and the people who were as excited to be in Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands as we were. As has always been the case this summer, the people we met (in the time between acts) made our experience what it was. As for …
Driving through the Redwoods, we felt really, really small. And yet we kept on, staring into fog and all of the above, enjoying the scenery when we could, and always the anonymity of insignificance when compared to Nature.
Still in our 48th state of the summer, we unwound with a hose shower (with a hell of a view), a fire pit, beers with a local flare, collecting so-called ‘hitchhikers’ (seen gathered on java), and off the grid power – at the center of it was Chris, an old friend who seems to have it all figured out in his own kingdom at the top of the hill.
