Tag: Run the Rut

Run the Rut

The 6th annual Rut Mountain Runs were held in Big Sky, Montana, over Labor Day weekend this year. Though the races have been affected by extreme conditions in years past, including wildfire smoke, rain, wind, snow and he...

Run the Rut

Runners huddled in a small heat shack sipping cups of chicken broth, changing out of wet clothes into drier ones from their drop bags, shivering as they tried to rebound from the grueling, cold course that was slowly get...

The Rut

At 5 a.m., I was trying not to think about the cold or the brief snowfall the night before. My body had started to acclimate to the altitude since flying in from California two days prior, but the continued lightheadedne...