SF2T- Day 8 (Return to trail)
Cappuccino and I were on the road at 5:15 a.m. Starbucks in hand. Driving north through the dark with scant traffic I was disappointed that Cappy couldn’t hike with me. Her new dog is...
Monthly Archive: August 2026
SF2T- Post Script-4
Sunday, Aug 23rd – Level picked me up at Cappuccino’s house in the morning, and we headed up to Sipapu Resort, where I would be starting the trail tomorrow. After about a 3-hour drive,...
SF2T- Post Script-3
First, a short recap. I was hiking the Santa Fe to Taos Trail (SF2T) in June with Cappuccino. I had heart palpitations that made me get off the trail roughly two-thirds of the way...
Mark’s Photos- #24
On Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, the snow had been falling all night, and by 10 a.m. there were 11 inches on the ground. Downed electrical lines and broken tree limbs had taken out power...
Mark’s Photos- #23
On September 10th of 2024, Cappuccino and I had a permit to camp at the bottom of the Grand Canyon along Bright Angel Creek. The start, on the South Rim, had been a cool...
Mark’s Photos- #22
I actually took this picture yesterday a couple of miles from my house. Eugene, OR, has a sister city just across the Willamette River that borders both towns and divides them. That other city...
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In June of 1980, Hannah and I were living in Tempe, Arizona. That June we were taking her brother Doug and his girlfriend Debbie to Rhododendron Park on Whidby Island in the Puget Sound. They were going to bike from there back to Phoenix! Anyway, Hannah had a high school friend living in Eugene who we stayed with. The following morning, we, being runners, ran the sawdust trails I’m guessing of this river. Almost heaven, West Virginia compared to the pavement of AZ.
In the picture upper left where the river disappears is a bend in the river. After the bend it goes more or less straight for several miles past the university and downtown Eugene on one side and through woods and fields on the other. If you and Hannah were running along or near a big river then that is probably where you were. However, Eugene features itself as”Track Town USA” for a reason. There are about 72 miles of running trails in and around Eugene.