ECENTDECENT

Setting a new unsupported FKT on the Kanaha Beach to volcano summit route of Maui's highest mountain.

A rare opportunity to traverse across Yakima Nation and around Washington's second largest volcano.

A year's progress in trail running and racing culminating in my first hundred miler, Mountain Lakes.

Rainshadow Running has a way of making races hard, harder in fact than you think they are going to be. Every time.

A quick spring break getaway into one of my favorite mountain ranges.

Ten days in Alaska with a party of twelve and a Winnebago.

My first race and the beginning of a life altering passion.

Visiting our Welsh friend, Thomas Prichard, a Norwegian local we met while cycling the northern fjords a few weeks prior.

Traveling with my Norwegian relatives literally down the roads, paths and fjords of my great grandmother, Celia Økland.

A multi peak bagging journey into the fjord carved mountains of Møre og Romsdal while staying in the Bjørdal's alpine cabin.

When you're given free stay in a house, mountain cabin, with two cars and the hospitality of a warm family you then understand what it is to be generous.

"One day I will live in that town and work at that coffee shop," were words I'd forgotten having spoken a decade prior about Ålesund and Jacu, that is until after it became a reality.

Does an alternative exist when the backbone of your vacation goes belly up?

"You know, this is the wettest, coldest year in a hundred," was a common reminder from Norwegian locals. Like an Oregon winter, really.

A walk back in time through the preserved cabin of my great, great grandfather's birthplace.

Exploring the people of my ancestors across the Norwegian landscapes of Oslo, Trondheim, Ålesund, Sunnmøre, Bergen and Lillehammer.