A surprise email arrived the Wednesday before the Saturday start of the 19th Cascade Crest Classic 100 held in the heart of the Central Cascades area of Washington State. Bad news: The Jolly Mountain fire was threatening...
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Right after the gun fired, and all of the runners jogged past, a pre-school-age boy turned to his dad and whispered, “I thought you said it was a race. Do they know they’re going slow?” Without missing a beat, the vetera...
It was during the soaking wet and freezing cold descent off of Keechelus Ridge at 2 a.m., on a sloppy, exposed eight-mile downhill maze of fire roads that the first signs of hypothermia surfaced. My core temperature was...