Wildflowers bloss(om)! (5) Sacred Snow? Now, sacred streams! (7) Waterfalls within! (5) chose to end Week One of new Kendall Mountain Race training block with another high alpine run after yesterday’s 4-hour crush of 12,496′ Silver Mountain with Dewa (see my social media!). legs felt surprisingly springy and lungs felt […]
Steve Ilg’s YouTube Video link: https://youtu.be/U5p0GaaTcA8 Premiering Monday, December 7, 2020 at 6a MST! under 12-minutes; treat you to my Crew Leaders’ insider look at Durango’s acclaimed “Sky Steps” and then s(om)e technical laps up my backyard mountain; Hogsbag, which will be pivotal virtual racing terrain as i Toe the Cyber Start Line […]
Parkour at 12,400’+; 4 Peaks/2 Hours w/Dewa! what a Sacred HONOR it was to – after nearly 15 years – revisit my old h(om)etown of Santa Fe with Dewa and just SLAM the CHI across 4 of ilg’s once go-to high peaks in just over 2 hours! most memorable m(om)ent… nearly 60 year-old ilg and […]
pic; selfie at the famed “Gudys Rest” on the CT….over my shoulders i the Junction Creek (JC) drainage. 160/Lightner/Dry Fork/Hoffeins/CT/JC…i like this direction because from RiverPad it’s about 70-minutes of relatively gradual climbing. wanted to keep my HR steady and moderate and pretty much Mission C(om)pleted. As the Captain of the premier […]
pic by ilg. Dewachen Ilg (12) with her M(om), Joy Kilpatrick, taking advantage of today’s suddenly final day at Durango Nordic Center. Dewa and i skied for 2 hours saying farewell to those sacred snows upon which we trained, raced, and cherished this beautiful winter. For more on the sacred precious snows and and […]
Pic by ilg: Dewa (11) at 12, 213′ Saturday offering Her Nectar (Sweat) To The Altar (Divine Throne)… pictured is Dewa gunning it on Her own volition for ilg’s go-to flip point a few hundred feet higher on one of Her daddy’s few remaining secret go-to’s as the crush of a new population seems intent […]
Red (Mother)Earth, Blue (Father) Sky… ilg can be found here if not in the high alpine terrain… love EVERYTHING ABOUT the high desert… and to ilg? it gets more and more sacred as ilg grows older and shares my special sacred spaces with Dewa who REALLY vibes in Auspicious Ways among this pinon-studded, arid Heavenly […]
Dewachen Ilg (11) this morning during a two-sport duathlon workout involving 5k of vert…. here, Dewa is halfway up a ski-poling workout up the frontside of Purgatory whereupon, m(om)ents after your feeble teacher got this pic? ilg spotted a Bear Being not 100-meters fr(om) us.. “Baby Girl?” “Yeah,” (insert gasping for breath) “Dad…?” […]
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