Girls Gone Wildwood

Salmon River is our most often run trail, after those in Forest Park. For this run, we started up Green Canyon, to the top of Devil's Peak for the view from the fire lookout, down to Linney Creek on a 5 mile out-and-back, than completed the loop by running the Salmon River Trail. It was a cool and cloudy day that only cleared up for a moment during our lunch break, just down from Devil's Peak. The timing couldn't have been better, because it was one of only two spots where you can see Mt Hood and we got to really soak in the view. The wildflowers were in full form and it was a great spring run. A large, dark rough skinned newt greeted us on the trail Hello Wilderness! Coralroot in bloom The misty reach of trees Fairy slipper orchids Still some trillium hanging on Ann capturing the view of Mt Jefferson The only time the clouds parted, to show us Mt Hood during our lunch break Kinzel Lake Trail Lots of nice, large mushrooms pu...

Yay Stinson This originally was going to be a much longer post, but we have gotten so far behind on blogging that this is more of a tl;dr (too long didn't read) post.  In early April I had a work trip to San Francisco that kept me in the city over the weekend, so Susan decided to fly down for a running weekend. I didn't spend a lot of time planning a route, I pinged a running friend of ours, Guf who lives in San Francisco and asked for suggestions on a 30 mile route in the Marin Headlands. The night before our run he sent us a 30 mile Strava route, which we decided to use.  Marin Headlands The weather was absolutely perfect for running, sunny and in the 70s. Though it felt pretty warm to us, since it was still winter like weather in Portland. We didn't think to bring sunscreen and we both ended up with some nasty sun burns.  Susan making her way down Dipsea... what goes down must go up??? We roughly followed Guf's route but g...

I was in London and Copenhagen for work with a weekend in between each city, I had planned on spending it exploring Copenhagen, well that was the plan before I googled "Trail running Denmark".  Hammer Trail , the most famous trail race in Denmark takes place on an island called  Bornholm  and the more I researched the island the more I wanted to go.  Bornholm is actually closer to Sweden than it is to Denmark. You can fly from Copenhagen to Bornholm or you can drive and take a ferry from Ystad, Sweden. Since I was planning this a week out, plane tickets were ridiculous, so we rented a car and got ferry tickets.  our hotel room patio I booked us a last minute room with an amazing view at  Nordlandet , a small hotel boutique hotel on Northwest side of the island.  Friday night: The ferry arrived into Bornholm around 6 pm. By the time we checked in and settled into our room it was around 7pm. Instead of venturing out ...