Day 4 report on my Leadville 100 journey

today’s actifitivity was solid. it was sick and sweet. it was very run, much fast, and all of the steps. i did it. i did it so well. rain. much rain. the rains came down but fortunately the floods did

I apologize for the lack of mountains in this post. I got distracted this past weekend by Leadville Ski Joring. Sorry! Ski joring is pretty much just as crazy as it looks. This is the sort of nonsense

Another video of some guy skiing behind a horse. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

This is just a video of a dude skiing behind a horse. Why am I writing these words? ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Yes, I counted them. I have a problem. I'm too wiped out to write a decent post about these 2 amazing photographs of Turquoise Lake that I took. I spent all day editing and perfecting them for you. Then

This is the second post in the #OutsideTheChurch series I started on Sunday, Jan. 7. I walked away from organized religion years ago, but I still have mixed emotions about the process of exiting, and about

I know this looks a lot like the pass of Thermopylae where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans held off the entire Persian army during the second invasion of Greece in 480 BC (and then dined in hell) — but that’s

^^ That is a picture of what's left of the old Denver City Mine ore bin looking like it wants to just fall over and die already. You can see this poor old ore bin for yourself if you visit Leadville, Colorado,

The Martin Bridge supports the Mineral Belt Trail as it crosses Seventh Street/CR3 near Fryer Hill and the old Matchless Mine that made Horace A.W. and Baby Doe Tabor filthy rotten rich. ^^ That is a picture

On a treek trunk behind what appears to be an arch of inflatable Christmas presents you can see the sign — NO DOGS ON LAWN. But dinosaurs are okay. So leave your dogs at home and bring your dinosaurs over

Last night I went wandering up Eighth Street searching for something to fill up my soul with, but all I got was a bunch of barking dogs and a few photos of Leadville at dusk. Shut up you dumb dogs: Jesus

At a peaceful intersection along Evans Gulch up in Leadville's historic mining district, a good ways past the place where the plows turn around, there stands a wooden sign marking the location of Evansville,

^^ Photo taken during a recent run in the mining district east of Leadville, near an intersection with the Mineral Belt Trail and some road that comes down off Iron Hill. I suppose I could go look at a

Recently I've been trying to learn as much as I can about this thing Steemians like to do called ColorChallenge. Still not sure I fully understand the concept, but what I've gathered so far is that you

I had a beautiful evening run yesterday up in Leadville’s Historic Mining District. The first three photos below are aimed in a general sunset direction. The last photo looks east-ish at the alpenglow.

Yesterday was a fun run up to Breece Hill and these piles of rock ripped up from the depths of the earth — traces of mining activity from over a hundred years ago. Soon enough this historical trashscape