Fossil Alpinism

A wonderful nine days based out of Twin Lakes campground.

A potpourri of skinning, snow, climbing, MTB, and trail running.

A great time with Danny and Mark. They fished at Twin Lakes, while I logged 12.5 hours of exercise on 119k (84k bike, 30k run, and 3.5k ski)...

A beautiful Lake Tahoe day, overnight low of 40 degrees, clear sky, sunny, and a high of 70 degrees go. Much of the day revolved around chec...

Actually, Mark picked me up in Reno at 3pm, and we were sitting on his deck in Squaw Valley by 4:30pm. A long - but not too difficult - trav...

  Another book - well thumbed - which I recently pulled off the Fossil Cabin shelf.   In this fifty year old guidebook, there were more th...

Today I am doing final tune-up workouts, packing, and driving down to the Albany airport. I fly out tomorrow morning at 5am, and arrive in R...

Streaming on the GTWS YouTube channel https://www.irunfar.com/how-to-win-the-zegama-marathon-studying-race-strategy-from-the-data

 An amazing ski mountaineering route, well worth a quick read. https://americanalpineclub.org/news/2025/5/19/the-enduro-traverse?mc_cid=5cd...

A quick video recap of Mezzalama 2025 one of the late April grand course races.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=80-2zIJ6ycQ

Given my knee injections, I needed to take it very easy the past two days. So, I grabbed this book off the shelf to thumb through.  In the ...

A great short video.   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvQ8-YSHRg

Last year was my 50th college reunion - the biggie - but this year was the big reunion for some of my slightly younger buddies. So, this p...



Felt good, wonderful time with Ted, and many excellent views. Hoping to do a metric century on the MTB at the Prouty in July.

With the return of nice weather; however I pushed things a little too hard, and have a slight hamstring pull.

Quite a bit of this is a recycling of the early chapters of his book Endure.  That said, it is interesting stuff, and while he ties it in to...

Last week was a wet one, and while I made the best of it, I was disappointed to only get out on the MTB twice. That said, it was a producti...

YAHOO … finally a spectacularly beautiful day. I took Selden and Alison out to the Grand Adirondack Hotel for a big breakfast. Then came ...

I just pulled this interesting anthology off my shelf; published in 1966, I opened it to one of the final essays, written in 1928 by Kather...

A short film, well worth viewing.   https://youtu.be/_q7S2SH0v-8?si=olzALREg3LkBat0T

Just a few of her chores include: moving the electric fences so the sheep have fresh grass to feed on. Replacing divots that were torn up f...

Starting their Olympic training out in Bend, Oregon.  This is the usual place where the biathlon and nordic teams conduct their first on-sno...

Also, focusing on increasing the vertical as well.

As a nordic ski racer, your official training year starts on May 1st, with April having been spent recovering and transitioning. May 1st ca...

From 2005-2015 Anton was one of the best ultra-marathoners in the world. Injury and subsequent inability to run high mileage weeks led him ...

As is often the case, many ups and downs, with a mixture of pleasant surprises as well as disappointments. (I was tempted to write "bi...

 Given my background as a nordic racer, as tradition demands, yesterday was my first day of the 2025-2026 training and racing season. I had...

An excellent twenty minute video.  https://youtu.be/0bfD4NiiMfo?si=Yp7odAjvF-P49O5y



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nLV9oLBJU

A week full of rain, some sunny days, snow squalls, and the real arrival of spring. Given the previous week I was pretty tired - ramping...

I saw this on a run this morning, convincing me that spring has finally come to the Adirondacks!

I had a good chat with Dr. Byrne, who 15 years ago 'scoped my right knee. After checking me out, looking at the pictures, and hearing ho...