Fossil Alpinism

Another good week, with a long hike, lots of time in the MTB saddle, a fine time trial effort, some nice sunsets and starry skies. I logged ...

 https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/faith-kipyegon-breaking4-attempt

But, great to be back on the MTB today … 35k+.

A good day, but quite hot and humid! We hiked up the Sherburne Pass trail, and down one of the ski area service roads.

Volume and vertical, back at the usual levels. The body felt good, joints handled the load, and I seem on track to handle a 50 mile ride on ...

This charity event raises money for the Dartmouth Cancer Center where I had my surgery almost two decades ago. I am registering for the 50 ...

All bagged up, and ready to be stored down at the Fossil Cabin.

Halfway through this training week, and have logged good cycling miles (just under 100k) and good vertical (over 3100'). Feeling good, a...

2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent Livestream Trailer youtube.com

 https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/alpinism/william-boffelli-sets-new-fkt-mont-blanc-4-hours-43-minutes-summit-back.html

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5A6YPoPqYtU&pp=0gcJCf0Ao7VqN5tD

On a different note, I had a good recovery week after 2+ weeks of very active outings in the Sierras, followed by a brutal 21 hour travel da...

 https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/first-all-female-yosemite-triple-crown-completed-laura-pineau-kate-kelleghan.html

 https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/sweat-science-summer-book-list-2025/

After two nights with a decent sleep, I am feeling better. Yesterday, I was able to manage a hike on the 1980 Olympic trails with Stash, and...

https://fasterskier.com/2025/06/three-measures-of-endurance-performance/

Well, I got a shower this morning; Mark drove me to Reno; I hopped on a plane to Dallas, with a connection to Albany. I should get in aroun...

The week was marked by a change of weather, with almost every afternoon bringing us a thunderstorm. Still, there was plenty of sun - time to...

I spent 90 minutes, cramponing on a 25-30 degree chute at Alpine Meadows ski area. Pretending I was going up and down the Breithorn. (I am n...

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...