Archive for category Outside Activities

Rocky Raccoon Feb 2nd 2008

Trip Report for Rocky Raccoon 100 mile run Feb 2nd 2008

In order to adequately report my experience of running my first successful 100 mile race, I feel like I need to provide some background to make it easier to understand what this accomplishment meant to me. My health has always been pretty precarious. When I [...]

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Estes Vacation June 16-19, 2005

Estes Vacation June 16-19, 2005
Lori and I left Hutchinson kind of late on Thursday morning, around 8:15. This put us in the park at Milner Pass around 4:30 Colorado time. We were intending to go for Mt. Ida, but the snow was really soft due to the lateness of the day, so we turned back [...]

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Alan’s First Ascent of Long’s

Here is the story of my ascent of Long’s Peak on Friday Sept. 10th, 2004.  The forecast was calling for sunny and warm all day (like it had been all week long), so I didn’t get up until 4am.  Lori drove me to the trailhead, I signed in the register, and was on the trail [...]

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