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Chile Part 2: Bariloche, Break-ins, and the Futa

After a brief stint at the Pucon hospital — which looks like it’s from World War I — I confirmed that I probably didn’t have a broken back. Unfortunately, it was feeling worse than it had been, so I resolved… Continue Reading →

Chile Part 1: Low Water

After a sweet late-October run of the Dryway and a high water lap on the East Branch of the Pemi, I packed my kayak in a bag, batted my eyelashes at the American Airlines check-in counter lady, and checked a… Continue Reading →

First Couple Days in Chile

I’ll be honest, when I was growing up in New York City, I didn’t envision spending my 24th birthday living in a van in Chile…but here I am. Not much of an update, just some photos from the last week… Continue Reading →

Midd Gorge Video

Long time no post. Sorry. More coming soon. Here’s a video from the Middlebury on March 18th:

Putnam Creek, NY

This past weekend was a Raquette off-week, so I figured there’d be nothing to do but Deerfield Fest. Then, lo and behold, it dumped rain on Friday. I refreshed the radar every ~5 or so minutes through the whole work… Continue Reading →

Raquette Livin’

Well, summer time is here in New England…which means 13 days of Hartlands in a row interspersed with the bi-weekly Raquette releases. I went up to the Raquette this weekend and it was everything I remembered from last year…What a… Continue Reading →

The North Fork

The North Fork of the Payette is everything it’s cracked up to be. Thanks so much for being such a supportive community, Banks. We’ll miss you, Stephen.

Yellowstone

According to Google, it only takes about 4 hours to drive from Jackson to Bozeman…but apparently they don’t expect you to stop every time you see a runnable rapid in Yellowstone. We stopped and looked at the Firehole River, a… Continue Reading →

Welcome to Wydaho

After Fibark, I rallied back to Boulder and spent another couple nights in the Front Range. Scotty, Dodge, and I ran Blackrock into Lower Clear Creek, and the next day we met up with team Ledyard to run the marathon… Continue Reading →

Vermont, the Waterfall State

I spent a few days this spring tracking down waterfalls in Vermont with the help of http://northeastwaterfalls.com/ and some beta from Ryan McCall and ended up with some awesome drops, some of which we ran and some of which I… Continue Reading →

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