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2017 Euro-Adventure Stop 5 – Isle of Skye, Scotland

January 10, 2018 by Amiee

While spending a week in Scotland, I kept getting whopped over the head with these eerie senses of deja vu. Either I had spent too much time looking through photos of these places or there is some sort of collective memory stored in my blood. Scotland was like coming home! The day before arrive in…

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Filed Under: Featured, Hiking, The Adventures, The Mountains Tagged With: Europe, European Adventures, Featured, Isle of Skye, Scotland, The Hebrides

2017 Euro-Adventure Stop 2 – Val Gardena, Italy

November 14, 2017 by Amiee

I had been staring at photos of the Val Gardena area for the past year, so to be there felt absolutely surreal. My first two trips to the Dolomites centered around exploring Cortina, Alta Badia, and Tre Cime de Laverado, but HOLY WOW, who knew the real jewel was Val Gardena?!? Day 1 Val Gardena…

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Filed Under: Featured, Hiking, The Adventures, The Mountains, Trail Running Mountains Tagged With: 2017 Euro-Adventure, Dolomites, Dolomites Hiking, Dolomites Trail Running, Italy

Running Wyoming’s Cirque of the Towers

August 25, 2017 by Amiee

I’ve been lusting after this run for years and it only took the Great American Eclipse to get me out there. I had backpacked into Wyoming’s Wind River Range about 8 or 9 years ago and was absolutely devoured by mosquitoes. Albeit beautiful, that trip was one of the most miserable experiences of my life…

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Filed Under: The Adventures, The Mountains, Trail Running Adventures, Trail Running Mountains Tagged With: Adventures, Bucket List, Bucket List Runs, Great American Eclipse, Trail Running, Trail Running Wyoming, Wind River Range, Wyoming

Speedgoat or Bust!

July 28, 2017 by Amiee

Can one rely on muscle memory for 32 miles? Uh, I guess we will see. I have psychological issues with racing and with well heat and with not being able to eat solid food and uh maybe life in general. It has been ELEVEN DAYS since I have had a sandwich, and make that ten days…

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Filed Under: Racing, The Adventures, The Mountains, Trail Running, Trail Running Mountains Tagged With: 50K, Anxiety, Fear, Speedgoat 50K, Trail Racing, Trail Running, Ultramarathons, Utah, Wasatch Adventures, Wasatch Mountains

Monument Valley 50K Race Report

May 18, 2017 by Amiee

Beelined it to the desert after work on a Thursday arriving just in time for a short hike to Mesa Arch and a spectacular sunset in Canyonlands National Park. Crawled into the back of my car and slept like a baby like I always do in the back of Rubes. A crazy tight Achilles and…

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Filed Under: Racing, The Adventures, The Desert, Trail Running Tagged With: 50K, Monument Valley, Racing, Southern Utah, Trail Races, Trail Racing, Trail Running, Ultramarathons, Utah

REI Placing Women Front and Center in the Outdoors

May 2, 2017 by Amiee

This post is sponsored by REI, but thoughts and opinions are my own. Rock a Boat. Start a Fire. Be a Force of Nature. Well the boat was certainly rocking. White-knuckling the paddle, I tried to ride the waves rather than fight, but they seemed to be coming from every direction. The waves were bouncing…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Adventures Tagged With: Featured, News, REI, Women Adventure, Women and the Outdoors, Women's Gear

Visiting the Great Salt Lake’s Spiral Jetty in Winter

January 25, 2017 by Amiee

“The lake [Great Salt Lake] is too difficult to approach to be taken for granted; the tang of surprise and the shock of recognition are a part of its character.” ~Dale L. Morgan After nearly an hour of white-knuckled, totally unplowed, ice-covered and drifted dirt road travel, we arrived at Rozel Point, the home of…

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Filed Under: The Adventures, The Desert, Travel Tagged With: Art, Desert, Earthart, Great Salt Lake, Spiral Jetty, Utah, Utah Travel

Hiking Handies Peak & American Basin (Kangaroo’s First 14er)

October 4, 2016 by Amiee

  For the 2nd year in a row, Kangaroo the Dog and I fled Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Day celebration for the fantastic wildflower basins of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Hitting peak wildflower season perfectly, I was rewarded with the most dramatic wildflower display I have ever seen. I spent the first day exploring Ice…

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Filed Under: Hiking, The Adventures, The Mountains, Wildflowers Tagged With: 14ers, Coloardo Wildflowers, Colorado, Colorado Hiking, San Juan Mountains

The Doorknobs (and Windows) of Provence

October 3, 2016 by Amiee

Rain they take as a personal affront, shaking their heads and commiserating with each other in the cafés, looking with profound suspicion at the sky as though a plague of locusts is about to descend, and picking their way with distaste through the puddles on the pavement. ~Peter Mayle from A Year in Provence It…

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Filed Under: The Adventures, The Life, Travel, Travels Tagged With: Europe, European Adventures, Featured, France, Provence

My Cortina Trail 2016 Race Report

July 29, 2016 by Amiee

As I made the final turn onto the cobblestone path that led to the Cortina Town Center, Juan from Espagna ran up from behind me, grabbed my hand and started sprinting at 400 meter pace dragging me screaming, laughing, and flailing all the way to the finish line. Thirty miles, 9,000 feet of climbing, about…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Adventures, The Mountains, Trail Running Adventures, Trail Running Mountains Tagged With: Dolomites, Featured, Italy, Racing, Trail Racing, Trail Running, Ultramarathon

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I still don’t quite understand how one can “ow I still don’t quite understand how one can “own” a bazillion years of geological time 🤔
New obsession, desert ice! New obsession, desert ice!
Not sure if either one of us is ever going to get Not sure if either one of us is ever going to get used to these average Monday morning run views (not a fan of how close he gets to the edge though).
Was worried I’d miss the snow living in the dese Was worried I’d miss the snow living in the desert this winter. Guess I don’t have to 🤷🏼‍♀️
Took my mom on her first slot canyon adventure the Took my mom on her first slot canyon adventure the other week. She said she learned those moves watching Ninja Warriors 😂 We then ticked off another of her bucket list items and had dinner at @hellsbackbonegrill (holy moly carrot cupcake desert, no photos cuz we enjoyed every second!). Now she just needs to buy a horse or at least find one to borrow and her winter in the desert will be complete (although she still has four more months here)!
Day 41 in a tent. Temps never got above freezing t Day 41 in a tent. Temps never got above freezing today. Hotel tomorrow 😜
A few bits of fall in the desert now that I live h A few bits of fall in the desert now that I live here 🌵🍂 💛
When your dog and hubby are sporting matching @sto When your dog and hubby are sporting matching @stormykromerofficial masks and only one of them is wearing it appropriately...
Last night we played bananagrams and I only used f Last night we played bananagrams and I only used flower words. I did not win 🤷🏼‍♀️, yet I did 🎨 💐!
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