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The Right Stuff: Alpine Running

The Right Stuff: Alpine Running

When I first moved from the mild, mossy forests of Seattle to a tiny town nestled at 7,200 feet in western Colorado’s Elk Mountains, my new environs required so...
Kids learning from a park ranger in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

10 National Park Hikes for Kids

Memories of my first time peering into the Grand Canyon are fuzzy. I was barely 4 years old, but the photo I have of my mom and me on the rim with that otherwor...
The Softrock 100

The Softrock 100

The lottery loser’s answer to running the Hardrock 100 Every December, 152 ultrarunners receive a piece of magnificent news: they’ve been accepted by lottery i...