Our Adventures

Simone up on the ridgeline on the Grandfather Trail Simone and I are ramping up for the Table Rock 50K next month, so we decided it was time to start focusing on longer trail runs instead of treating our Linville Gorge climbing days as trail-running training. To be fair, those days can be pretty grueling in their own right. We figured a good route to "ease" into the training buildup would be Profile Trail to the Swinging Bridge and back. The Profile Trail is arguably the most

By Ely Yancey Marcus and I met a few months ago after I moved into a house a few doors down from him. After discovering my new neighbor was into all the same hobbies as me, we immediately started getting after it, going on mountain bike rides during the week and climbing on the weekends. We had both been wanting to do the Crusher for years, but neither of us had a partner willing to commit to preparing for it properly. We knew if we wanted to go for it, we needed to start now