Good morning trail friends. This week we’ve got cavemen, sparkles, and a guy who ran a marathon with an eight-pound ironing board. Our featured piece is about an Indigenous ultrarunner fighting for inclusion. And in the DFL, we send you to England to consider running in the dark and to the mountains to look at the chaos of male friendship.
The Appalachian Mountain Club huts provide a unique way to tour New Hampshire’s granite peaks. In this month’s top-shot, professional runner Hillary Gerardi leads Zoë Rom, Cory Smith, Matt Hart and Tanner Bowden up into the White Mountains during a hut to hut run.
Hillary — who was fresh off her overall FKT on the Mahoosuc Traverse — was once an AMC hut crew member and therefore the perfect guide for this adventure run from Crawford to Franconia Notch.
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