Oh, oh, oh–how I love running in mud! Our Wolverine Trail/Middle Fork/Powerline Pass run served up so much mud that by the time we finished, I was pure mud past my ankles. My shoes weren’t even recognizable. It was cold mud, too. Cold and mucky and smelly. We initially set out for a four mile run up […]

Yesterday I found myself with that itchy feeling of being stuck inside too long so I headed out to run Flattop Peak. It was nice in town, a warm autumn day in the low 50s, a running-in-shorts-for-the-last-few-weeks kind of afternoon. That changed as soon as I drove up the Hillside to the Glen Alps parking […]

Yesterday I pulled myself away from my writerly isolation (is there such a word as writerly? I dunno. Maybe I just made it up) and drove out to Alyeska Resort in Girdwood to visit MM, who was staying at the lodge for three days for a work conference. I’ve been at the resort but I’ve never […]

When the sun peaks out and the birch leaves glow yellow, autumn in Alaska is the best place in the world. The air is crisp and the sun is warm and you can smell the scent of berries and leaves and the soft, damp odor of the ground. On such days, it’s impossible to stay indoors. And […]