Category: Trail Running and Hiking

Today some friends and I ran the Seven Sisters Trail Race. It’s a really tough race over 7 peaks (and back again) in the Holyoke Range near Amherst, Massachusetts. It’s […]

The Taconic Crest Trail has been on my running bucket list for a while now. Ever since I heard about E dropping off a bike at one end, driving to […]

Looking to compare two sets of GPS tracks? GPS Visualizer has a great site for creating side-by-side comparisons. For example, here is a chart comparing the Great Range Traverse, Tongue […]

I took some time off from work. J had time off as well. We made a “plan A”, to camp out deep in the wilderness at the “Uphill” lean-to near […]

I’m not sure what it is. But my natural cycle has always been to be at some kind of low point from which I slowly build myself up to feeling […]

About the Race The Wakely Dam Ultra is a (roughly) 33 mile running race along a very remote section of the Northville Placid Trail from the Wakely Dam to Piseco […]

There is a new proposed trail connecting Moreau Lake State Park to Saratoga Springs. The trail doesn’t exist yet. Here is the proposed trail overlaid on top of google maps […]

I’ve been dying to run the Seven Sisters Trail Run in Amherst, MA since I heard stories after my friend H ran it 4 years ago, back in 2010. He […]