We were both peering over the map on the wooden floor inside the rustic little shelter alongside Washington Creek. Beyond the bug screen of the three-walled enclosure . . .
I mean, I love where I live. It’s the heartland. The state motto is “The Good Life.” . . .
“Everything about this place just seems tough as shit, you know?” my friend said from the passenger seat of my 1998 Toyota Camry, as we wove along the narrow, two-lane Highway 61 north of Duluth, Minnesota. . . .
Go if You want to bask in the enormity of the greatest of the Great Lakes after some breezy trail miles on sandy shoreline, smooth hardpacked hills and rocky climbs. . . .
For 42 years, the Escarpment Run has been both a staple and a bit of an outlier in the trail-running scene in the Northeast. An 18-mile race over a very challenging course on a variety of surfaces . . .