My Grand Adventure

I mentioned in a previous post that I'm not much of a runner. It just feels really hard to me, maybe the way swimming feels really hard to others. But I do it anyways. Partly because I'm just stubborn and partly because there's such a great running community here in Durham that I want to be a part of it. Over the last year I've been sporadically running on a trail near my house. Not far, and certainly not very fast, but I ran. After a few attempts to run on my neighborhood st

The Grand Teton is a pretty big mountain. The second tallest in Wyoming and the tallest in the Teton Range at 13,775'. Jackson Hole Mountain Guides, who will be leading the climb, describes the first day this way, "The hike, while very scenic, does gain 4200 feet of elevation gain and requires a certain level of fitness and will." What a pleasant way to say, "You better get your butt into the gym". Or at least that's how I read it. So I've been doing a variety of training - C

Well, here goes. I've been trying to think of new ways to inspire people to support my Summit for Someone climb so I thought I'd put together a website to help me share my inspiration and hopefully inspire you, too. It's quite uncomfortable for me to ask friends and family for money. I actually hesitated to sign up for this Summit for Someone climb because I was worried about committing to raising the $4,000 for Big City Mountaineers. But I just kept thinking about all the ad