Jacobs Ladder

Great Run amongst the hunters. Did 2 hours until I ran into deer hunters at Movie Rock. Figured that with five hunters with rifles and itchy trigger fingers being the last few days of the month, I had better head back.

Great Run. Total of 3 hours.

Long Run Cut Short

Here are a few pictures that I stopped to take. Between Cascade Springs and Pole Line pass. I wanted to make it to Brighton and back, but had problems with my dog and a mule that was attached to a hunter. My dog could not understand what they were as the hunter was dressed in camouflage, still a little grey light and a mule that was ornery. Cut short a good run, but a beautiful day.

Camping with the boys

Had fun camping with the boys. Rained on us the 2nd night/ Lucky it did not snow.

Love the mountains.

Wasatch 100

Got to pace a good friend Jeff Holdaway in part of the Wasatch 10o. Amazing how he can keep moving so fast thru the heat, up hills all while puking his guts out.

I have to jog to keep up with his walk while going up the hills.

I did not get to see the finish but I know he did. I only hope that I did not slow him down.

Thanks for the chance to run with the big dogs as Jeff is a 100 mile vet.

Labor Day

For Labor day I convinced the family to make the 3-1/2 hour trek to go to Lava hot springs and sit in the hot pools. I think they though I was absolutly crazy. We stayed in a little tiny motel, and sat in the pools for the afternoon. After dinner we went back and then everyone crashed. We took the long road home driving through Soda Springs, Bear lake and Cache Valley. We only wanted to get Rasberrys and Squeeky Cheese. We were not able to get either.
I had fun and am glad my family was patient. I loved being with them.

Greatest Young Men In the World

Here is a picture of my boys. I am a pround pop. They are great outstanding men and will do anything to help anyone. They are great scouts and two will have their Eagle as soon as the projects are done.

Timp and Pictures

Ran up Timp for the 6th time. Nothing near the Woolsley man who is the keeper of the book. When you summit Timp you get to write your name in it to prove you made it to the top. He has logs from years on Timp. He has over 300 summits and some would argue that he has the most.
Enough said.
I got to run with three other friends, Dave and Dave and the guy I am pacing at Wasatch Jeff Holdaway. We ran into Jeff half ways up. I love this mountain and now you can see why. The greatest high ridges all above tree line, high elevation and B-E-A-U-tiful!!!

We did this in 4 hours and 40 minutes. My record is 2 Timp summits in a day. Took me 8-1/2 hours.

Good Week

Ran three times this week. All on Clarks Trail and up to Jacobs ladder. Only about 1000' to 1500' elevation. I need a lot more elevation so I am meeting with the TURDs (Timpanogos Ultra Runner Dudes) Dave and Dave for a summit of Timp.
Great pictures to come.

Back on the trail

I went up onto Jacobs Ladder today up towards Lone Peak. One more step to finding my way up to the top. I will keep pushing a little further each time until I can maked it a round trip. Some guy said that he though it was 6 miles up. That is not bad, but a lot of branches of trail. I will keep going until I find the right route that is good for climbing and running.

Here are a few pictures.

Moby Dick

I get Kidney Stones. Painful. Yet love to drink Diet coke, eat cashews, and run long distances. None of the above help out. Latley about every three to four months I get one of these barbed looking thing that want to pass into my bladder.

I have passed a kidney stone on the top of Lighting Ridge, I have passed a kidney stone on vacation driving to Disney land, in a meeting at work, most of these times without any pain killers.

Sometimes I take a good painkiller and watch a good long movie like Lord of the Rings, Drink a lot of water and flush the "DEVIL" out.

This time I woke up at 2:00am with some severe back pain. I took a painkiller and 44 ounces of water and the pain would not go away. After 1-1/2 hours more I took another. Still the pain was great. At 7:00am I asked my 16 year old son to take me to the hospital. After a liter of morphine I could finally lay still.

They took xrays and wanted to see how big it was. Just before they came to tell me I used the bathroom and shot the sucker out into the catch basin. Because of the size of it, the doctor or nurses did not believe me that I had passed it. The doctor rushed to get a ruler to measure it and it turned out to be 7 millimeters. They still could not beleive that I passed it. He said that most of the general public cannot pass anything bigger than 5 millimeters.

Here is a picture of Moby Dick!!!