Ed Viesturs (National Geographic photo)
Loads of goodies this week. Mountains, trails and other news, plus two — count em, two! — videos. Time for the Weekly Stoke!
Ed Viesturs is the first American to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks. He’s summitted Mount Everest several times. And he has an opinion about putting up ladders on Everest’s Hillary Step.
Some things are too spooky to use. At least that’s what it looks like for the Forest Service, which has abandoned a proposal to use drones for monitoring forest fires.
A couple from Outside Magazine: One is about how running might actually help your knees, and another about long-term effects that distance running has on overall fitness.
You might find this hard to believe, but that trickle of water flowing through concrete embankments known as the Los Angeles River is actually home to some pretty good outdoor recreation these days.
UK’s Daily Mail online offers this bit of photographic trail goodness.
I want to introduce you to a trail runner and ultra marathoner who also happens to be one of the more entertaining writers out there. Read Ashley Walsh’s recap of her team’s performance in an 81-mile ultra at the Salton Sea in Southern California.
First of two videos: An amazing look at the Appalachian cicada hatch here:
And secondly, some good running humor:
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Love this!! Thanks for the shout out!!
No problem, Ashley! It was a good read, and that’s the stuff I look for, anything that will interest people like us. PS, can’t wait for your next installment!
Enjoyed the Viesturs article and I need to eventually check out the LA River.
I think it’s cool that even through the “river” has been pretty much turned into a unnatural thing, folks in LA have been able to turn a negative into a positive. If it’s getting folks outside and doing things, I’m all for it.
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