Highlands Trail 550

What a trip. Something about the weather and the terrain and my unfamiliarity with this part of the world makes this race seem like something I stepped into and out of, a world of its own which has very little to do with my day to day life. There is a little bit of a veil in my mind of what it is like out there. When I look back, it feels like I’m looking through the rainstreaked glasses I spent the majority of the race staring out of. My vision of what happened is tired and hard to focus READ MORE

The Grand Loop 2025

Photos by Greg Dunham A Few Thoughts I read about the Grand Loop for the first time last Spring after the race’s completion that year. At the time I was preparing for my first mountain bike races, a summer schedule that was designed to build up to the Colorado Trail Race. By the end of the season I had successfully completed the CTR , Vapor Trail, and a few other one day events, and I was already planning more races for 2025; I put the Grand Loop on my list. When registration opened for the event a month prior, I READ MORE