Category: Local Trails

Some days, I get the urge to run on singletrack. Rocks. Roots. A technical challenge. Some days, I feel like running on forest roads. Smoother. Softer.…

Kachina Village, to me, has always seemed a mysterious enclave, somewhat forbidding and not really welcoming to outsiders — meaning folks from Flagstaff. Something about those…

Running with the Northen Arizona Trail Runners Association crew on its Saturday sojourns is always a good idea. But when the group’s honcho, Neil Weintraub, picks…

My geezer training plan called for an easy six miles, a recovery run, preferably on a soft surface. The plan said nothing about bagels; that was…

On a relatively mild day Sunday down in the Valley, though perhaps a tad warm for mountain folks, Flagstaff’s Nicole Hanson seemed unfazed in the Dam…

A trip down-mountain to Phoenix for personal business beckoned, and I’ve got to say that, this time, I wasn’t dreading the drive and leaving behind our…

I remember, vividly, the first time I made the lung-searing 4.5 run to the top of Mount Wilson in Sedona. It was four years ago, and…

Vernal equinox? Today? Yeah, right. If it’s really spring, why do I still see my breath on my morning runs in Flagstaff? Why is my car’s…

Decades ago, I attended a lecture at Cornell University by the late, great novelist Kurt Vonnegut. It was March and miserable in Ithaca, N.Y., if memory…

Lately, I’ve avoided going to Sedona to run. Nothing personal against the crystal-clutching, vortex-vibrant people of that lovely and rutilant locale. But, you know, the traffic…