Wheeler Farm Loops

AM - 10 miles in the snow!

PM - Ski Tour in Silver Fork w/ Amiee [2850']. We skied two laps in the Meadow Chutes. The snow in the upper meadows was excellent and it felt so good to make powder turns again. On the flip side, I made a few navigation errors which led to a somewhat horrendous bushwack exit. I get one free pass for poor route-finding every season and used it today. Unfortunately for Amiee, she got to experience the survival skiing instead of Andrea for once. All that being said... it was still a real backcountry ski tour with powder snow and not just skinning laps at Brighton! El Nino has arrived!

AM - 7 miles.

PM - Storm skinning at Brighton [3100']. Going up there tonight had bad idea written all over it, but it ended up being a blast and the drive down BCC wasn't too sketchy, thanks to the old reliable jeep! The storm was raging above 10,000 feet, with wind gusts that actually knocked me over near the top of the first ascent. So I ended up progressively moving down the mountain and did fun mini-golf style laps in the pow. 

AM - 7 miles.

PM - 7 miles.

AM - 7 miles.

Came across some of my old marble composition books recently.

This was probably my first training log entry ever...

Another one from high school - what is more impressive: sub 27 for 200m or my Mom running a sub 7:00 mile?

These ski logs bring back good memories. A few pages from 2010...

I kept fairly good records of skiing (and peakbagging) during my two years in Colorado (but have no running logs from those years). We kept a really good skiing log during our first season in Utah, then started tracking running a lot more closely (its nice to now have 5 years of consistent logs at this point) and stopped keeping track of the skiing as much (we also barely skied for three seasons).

I'm very optimistic that 2016 is going to be an excellent year for both skiing and running.

AM - 16 miles (8 w/ Andrea).

Christmas Eve on Tellico Lake in Tennessee...

AM - 8 miles w/ Andrea. Torrential rainstorm... essentailly just running a stream.

PM - 8 miles.

AM - 17 miles.

Unseasonably warm, borderline hot, in Knoxville this week. 70+ degrees every day... if I'm not skiing, I prefer to spend my Christmas vacations shirtless.