Catching up on the rest of 2017...

Well, once again I forgot to update this site for a long time. I knew it was inevitable after a remarkable consistent stretch of weekly updates for the first seven months of the year.

The dream ski season was followed closely by an incredible summer for wildflower hiking, and then we kept the momentum going and had our best couple months of trail running ever. There were lots of trips to the Southern Utah desert for running, hiking, and canyoneering - Capitol Reef, Escalante, San Rafael Swell, Zion, Moab, etc etc etc. We went to the Dominican Republic in December. Andrea snuck in a trip to the Wind Rivers in August. We ran many miles of trails in Park City and the Central Wasatch. We had great fun with friends and family. To say 2017 was a really, really great year for outdoor adventures would be a vast understatement.

Now we are waiting for the ski season to begin again. As of December 30th, there's hardly any snow - and what is on the ground seems very dangerous and avalanche-prone. Hopefully it will turn around soon. And if it doesn't, there's no shortage of other things to do here!

Below is a photo dump from August on wards. I'm sure I missed a bunch of good ones, but at least they are out of order. 

Happy New Year!!!

PS - Roo is not our dog but we love him ;-)

The Wedge / Good Water Rim Trail

Andrea running the Good Water Rim trail

I broke the blog (forgot to re-register the domain name) so in the meantime fell about a month behind on posting. There's a few things we need to go back in time and update - Andrea's Wind Rivers/Eclipse trip, and our Labor Day extended weekend with my parents to Capitol Reef and Goblin Valley.

Two weeks ago it was blazing hot in southern Utah. Now its nice and pleasant. When we saw forecasted high temperatures of 70-75 degrees for the San Rafael Swell region (and in reality it never got above ~65 degrees where we were camping) we decided to head down that way over the weekend and camp/run in our of our favorite places: The Wedge / Little Grand Canyon. We headed down after work and setup camp just after a rain storm blew through the area.

The main objective was to run the Good Water Rim trail on Saturday morning, which is 16+ miles (one way) of twisty singletrack along the canyon rim. You can run many distance variations, but the most important thing is to just do it at some points because its such a cool run!

The weather was ideal and the running was great. Andrea did her longest run in about 5 years, and I did my longest run ever (I think). We ran some parts over again on Sunday morning because its that much fun. We had a perfect campsite on the Little Grand Canyon rim, ate burritos for every meal, read books, watched the sun rise and set, and even relaxed a little bit!

Looking forward to more desert trips this fall...