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Running with Bears: June 2010
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Where better to spend summer solstice weekend then the Canadian Yukon? Last Saturday was the annual Kluane Bicycle Relay. It's a 150 mile event that starts in beautiful Haines Junction (Canadian Yukon) and heads south, over the Chilkat Pass and down to the seaside town of Haines (Alaska). It sounds odd after riding 70 miles, but my legs felt rested Sunday afternoon when I ran up to the lo...
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Running with Bears: May 2010
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Monday, May 24, 2010. First Bite of the Sandwich. Anyway, most runners who work typical weekday hours, rest Friday and Monday and spend hours of their weekend on the trail - the meat of the sandwich. Off to pop some Aleve and eat a real sandwich. Until next time. Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). By the house with the dogs. First Bite of the Sandwich. View my complete profile. I live in the Tonga...
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Running with Bears: July 2010
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Monday, July 12, 2010. Running the Chilkoot Trail. We met another friend, Bob, at the trail head and started at 5:20 am The sun was already shining as we trotted towards the first camp down the trail, Finnegin's Point, at 4.8 miles. I carried two water bottles and Iodine, four power bars, four GU's, a PBJ sandwich, a Snicker's bar, one light rain jacket, cap, gloves, my tiny camera and the BEAR SPRAY! We moved qu...
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Running with Bears: April 2012
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Saturday, April 14, 2012. Orcas Island 50k - A Midwinter Adventure! But, the weather was gorgeous and we waved goodbye to the ferry wearing only shirt-sleeves. I opted for the early start based on my lack of training and after reviewing last year's stats which showed that over 30% of the runners failed to finish within the 8 hour cut-off. There was over 8000 feet of elevation change on the course. That's a lo...
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Running with Bears: August 2010
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Monday, August 30, 2010. Windfall to Montana Creek: Brown Bear Country. Four women start up a remote, muddy 14 mile trail through the mountains of Alaska in the late afternoon, with no cell phone coverage, no map, no compass, no supplies other than pockets full of jelly beans, and one diminutive can of bear spray that expired in 2006.sound like fodder for the next reality show? If I had known Sunday that blueberr...
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Running with Bears: June 2013
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Sunday, June 23, 2013. Traversing Alaska's Lost Coast Lituya Bay to Yakutat. One month ago six of us Alaskans (five strong-minded women and one really great guy! Thursday, May 23, 2013 - our float plane departs from Juneau. La Perouse Glacier - a view from the float plane. The plane departed at 11:15 am on Thursday. Trimline left by 1958 tsunami wave. Night one - our first bear visit. The omnipresent bear highway.
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Running with Bears: July 2014
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Sunday, July 20, 2014. Running the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim. Late last September my friend Gail and I escaped Juneau's rain and hiked the Grand Canyon from the North Rim to the South Rim. The following day I ran from the South Rim back to our campsite on the North Rim. The distance each way was 25 miles. We loved the dry, non-technical trail and the cloudless sky! Cooling down near Phantom Ranch. We crossed the br...
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Running with Bears: August 2012
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Friday, August 3, 2012. Chilkoot Trail Run July 2012. Last Sunday I ran the Chilkoot Trail again with two friends, Mary and Amy. The weather was starkly different than the hot sunshine of July 2010, but better in many ways for a 35.5 mile grueling trail run. It was high overcast until after Bare Loon Lake (mile 29) when the sun popped out for our 5.5 mile jaunt on the tracks. Here, I was relieved to be trail-runn...
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Running with Bears: September 2010
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Friday, September 24, 2010. Shaken Not Stirred: Klondike 2010. Well, Shaken Not Stirred will be the first to tell you that we may not be the fastest team on the road to Whitehorse, but if there were a category for "The Most Fun Team," (and there should be) we'd be right up there with the guys running in the tight, red dresses. Here's our recap of Klondike 2010. We know how critical Carol is to our team because on...
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Running with Bears: July 2012
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A site for middle-aged female runners and skiers and all who are refusing to age gracefully. Sunday, July 1, 2012. Hiking the Backside of Douglas Island. And a 60ish man with longish gray hair was strolling through the grass in cover-alls under a huge sign reading "Lucky Me". Sharon explained that someone had won the cabins in a poker game. As the tide came in, we were unable to maneuver our way around a few of the rocky barriers between the bays and we scrambled up into the woods and followed animal tra...
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