® www.OutdoorsNW.com November/December 2015 FREE HIT THE TRAIL! Our Bucket List of Where to Run Dodging Rattlesnakes Running Gear Guide Become a Better Runner + Jaw-dropping Vistas of Mount Rainier Got Ice? Get Traction Devices Polar Bear Plunges, Dips and Dives Page 34 Enter our Photo Contest! Jaw-dropping Vistas of Mount Rainier Page 22 Table of Contents November/December 2015 VOLUME 28, ISSUE 8 www.OutdoorsNW.com FEATURES Editor’s Note Trail Running Section Photo Contests Beauty by the Snowdrift Stood Submit your photos in 2016 By Kris Parfitt 6 Dodging Rattlesnakes 34 Running in Sage Country Heat NW Trails By Jameson Hawn 8 Polar Bear Plunges, Sponsored by Green Trails Maps 22 Dips and Dives Jaw-dropping Vistas of Mount Rainier Book Reviews Compiled by Kris Parfitt 34 A Snowshoe Hike to Sun Top Mountain Trail Running By Craig Romano By Kris Parfitt 12 Ski Buzz Gear Review International Women’s Ski Day Got Ice? Get Traction Devices! Our Bucket List 36 By Carolyn Price 25 of Where to Run By Yitka Winn 14 Food Review Luvo Meals on the Go Buzz By Carolyn Price 37 Pre’s Trail hosts ’16 Olympic hopefuls NW Kids Ultra-woman Beth Brewster Gear for Teens and Tweens 26 By Amy Whitley 16 Sports Medicine Pursuits Sponsored by Running Gear Guide Therapeutic Associates 39 “Ultrapedestrian” Treks By Yitka Winn Practicing untraditional adventure 18 Winter Running: By Yitka Winn Visibility and Agility 28 On the Run Event Calendar Log that Run! Sign up for our Event Calendar And Improve Your Performance E-newsletter! in print and online: 32 By Clint Cherepa 20 www.outdoorsnw.com www.OutdoorsNW.com ON THE COVER: Amy Sproston, a world champion ultrarunner from Portland, Oregon, runs ABOVE PHOTO: Seahawks fans, Tami Frazier, left, and her sister Leslie, across the Munra Falls Bridge along the Wahclella Falls trails on the Oregon side of the fly their 12th Man flag from the summit of Crystal Mountain across from Columbia River Gorge. Photo by Paul Nelson www.paulmnelsonphotography.com Mount Rainier in January 2015. Photo courtesy of Tami Frazier 4 November/December 2015 OutdoorsNW Editor’s Note By Kris Parfitt STAFF PUBLISHERS Beauty by the snowdrift stood Carolyn Price Carolyn@OutdoorsNW.com Greg Price e live in a fantastic Greg@OutdoorsNW.com and beautiful MANAGING EDITOR/ YEARS SOCIAL MEDIA region. Our Kris Parfitt W Kris@OutdoorsNW.com landscape weaves together ART DIRECTOR deep water, fertile basin and Chuck Schultz extraordinary range. I've lived Production@OutdoorsNW.com Advertising in Seattle for over 12 years Advertising@OutdoorsNW.com Jennifer McLaughlin and there has yet to be a day Jennifer@OutdoorsNW.com PJ Watanabe when my jaw hasn’t dropped PJ@OutdoorsNW.com from a vista or scene that EVENT SPECIALIST Devon Haight rendered me speechless from Events@OutdoorsNW.com phenomenal beauty. 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Photo by Jameson Hawn had spent much of the last mile It’s early summer and the Department of Fish and Wildlife and navigating the vertical canyon walls temperature in this eastern federal agencies like the Bureau I at breakneck speeds as it dwindled Washington broiler near Wenatchee of Land Management (BLM) own to nothing more than a rutted, is well above the 90-degree and maintain large tracks of land rock-strewn cattle trail high above mark. Humidity from a near-by throughout the state. Palisades, Washington. thunderstorm clings to us, as I and Today we will set down treads on a My eyes focused solely on the next my like-minded running partners, patchwork of State Trust, BLM, DNR step—to glance away could mean a Scott Sundberg and Jared Reyes, drop and privately owned property with sprained ankle, or worse, a tumble off further into the canyon. access rights granted to the public. the narrow path carved into the steep his run, or rather this “stress test,” Leading the running pack is Reyes, canyon wall. Tis more than just a masochistic a 24-year-old eastern Washington The flat plateau of sage-strewn reaction to the heat, rather a chance resident and former 2A national canyons juxtaposed with small, lush to once again feel free of the collegiate track star. His path is farming plots fanned out below as far constraints of designated trails and determined by his speed, and with the as the eye could see. There’s no shade roads. It’s an opportunity to enjoy arid, flat plateau spanning for miles, in this country. It’s an arid land of the sage country and remember why he pushes the pace faster. jagged basalt rock. we chose trail running as a hobby. It Reyes juke-moves his way from trail Cheatgrass, a spiky, widespread is also something every trail runner to trail, bounding effortlessly across invasive species to the Columbia should try. the rutted cow trails that crisscross the Basin, sneaks its way farther into my The western U.S. offers runners area, oftentimes carving his own path socks and shoe liner with every step, ample room to stretch their legs on through cheatgrass and sage brush. delivering micro-jabbing sensations public ground. The State Department “You ready for a surge?” Reyes calls every few yards. of Natural Resources (DNR), out over his shoulder. His idea of a good 8 November/December 2015 OutdoorsNW mid-run competition is to drag fellow trail-junky friends into land is open to cattle grazing and features circular a high-speed, high-risk dogfight on the winding trail.
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