Luke Nelson
Luke is a Patagonia Trail Run ambassador and race director of the Scout Mountain Ultras. He lives and runs in Pocatello, Idaho.
One runner鈥檚 attempt to link his hometown skyline becomes something much greater.
It started on a hot afternoon in May, deep in Bears Ears National Monument. Four of us had been going hard for a couple of days and the fatigue from difficult miles was stacking up. One of us was struggling. It might have been lack of training, or perhaps improper fueling for back-to-back 12-hour days…
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to be crazy,鈥� Ty likes to say, 鈥渂ut it helps.鈥� I鈥檝e stopped counting how many times over the years these words have described our harebrained outings. Right then, I was trying to focus on surviving the current one. Anything that actually resembled running had stopped hours ago. The sun was shining, but…
By Luke Nelson There is something unnerving about waking up shivering. I rolled over and did a dozen or so push-ups in an attempt to get warm enough to fall back asleep. My commotion led to Cody pressing the light on his watch. 鈥淚t鈥檚 almost 4 a.m.,鈥� I mumbled. 鈥淚鈥檝e been cold for a while,鈥�…
The wind gusts, blowing spray from the water lapping on the banks of Lago General Carrera. Here I stand, eyes closed, feeling the cool mist on my sunburnt cheeks. When I open my eyes it鈥檚 still there, it feels like a dream, but it鈥檚 not鈥擯atagonia spreads out all around me. I鈥檝e long dreamt of seeing…
