Girls Gone Wildwood

It seems like all the cool kids are publishing gift guides, so we thought we would post some of our favorite things.  Tribute to the Trails 2018 calendar   Susan has given this calendar to me and David the last few years as a Christmas gift. Not only does it have amazing pictures of races around the PNW, it also supports the Washington Trail Association .  Spot Device I don't currently own a Spot, but I am pretty sure there is one under my Christmas tree. After listening to several podcast with Candice describing how well it works for her 200 mile races for tracking and finding people, I knew I needed to get one, especially after our misadventure at  Siouxon Creek . Black Diamond Carbon Z Poles I love these poles, they are super lightweight, durable and compact. We never go on an adventure run without them, we use them frequently for tricky stream crossings and technical downhill / uphill sections. When they are stowed away I...

My husband is traveling for the better part of 2 months for work, one of his work trips was to Sweden, I had never been to Sweden and didn't want to go almost 2 months without seeing him, so I asked my boss if I could work remotely from Europe for a ~week. She said yes! We also have a good friend, Karrla, from Portland who is currently living Berlin, who decided she was going to meet us in Stockholm for the weekend.  Since I only had the weekend free in Stockholm, I didn't do a lot of research on what to do, I figured we would look at Trip Advisor and go from there. The NY Times recently published  36 hours in Stockholm , so we decided to loosely base our weekend around that.  View from my hotel room Here is our take on 36+ hours in Stockholm. I arrived Friday around 1pm and was extremely jet lagged, so a lot of Friday was a blur, luckily Karrla was there to drag me around. After a quick shower at the hotel we walked around  Gamla Sta...

The perfect view Sometimes you have the perfect route, the perfect weather, the perfect view, the perfect running partner, today was one of those days. This was our first 20 mile run since attempting the Grand Canyon R2R2R five weeks ago. It was nice to take it easy for the last few weeks, but with 2017 coming to an end and starting to think about our 2018 race and adventure schedule, I am ready to start increasing our mileage.  Route: 53/Dogwood - Keil - .10 Keil - WW - .17 WW - Pittock - 5.78 Pittock - Apson - 2.58 Aspen - Thurman / Leif trailhead - .75 Leif - Dogwood - .85 Dogwood - WW - .34 WW - Alder - .96 Alder - Leif - .84 Leif - Maple - 2.69 Maple - WW - .82 WW - Keil - 3.55 Keil - car - .27 Total: 19.70