One of many pictures we took at an 18 mile round trip into the Trinity Alps this past August. If you're interested in more pictures, you can see them here: http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x194/fatozzig/canyon%20creek%20aug%202007/?start=0 Or you can read the whole sordid tale at: http://fatozzig.blogspot.com/ . Look at the August Archive. It was an unbelievably beautiful place to run, and I am more than ready to go back. . . . . although this time of year it might be tricky with 13 feet of snow!

Took this one last summer too. This is the trail up Harney Peak in South Dakota. Mountain in the distance is the backside of Mt. Rushmore.

From the Salt Point Trail Run last year.

This morning I ran Waldo Canyon outside of Colorado Springs. http://www.inclineclub.com/maps/waldo.htm This trail is where trail running legend Matt Carpenter married his wife.

I love this place ... Neil

Whoops ... sorry. It is above the Oeschinensee which is above Kandersteg in Switzerland. This is a wonderful trail - there is a cable car that takes you up about 1500' ft and then the rest is down to your legs. As you can see, it was a wonderful day (made even better by the mountain restaurant I found 2 miles later!). Neil UK

Mine aren't nearly as majestic, but where I normally run (about an hour southeast of where I live) is the site of the world's first oil boom in the 1860's - Oil Creek State Park in Titusville PA, USA. I couldn't get the photos to embed in my reply, so never mind... but there are still oil barrels / collection vats every now and then along the trail as well as oil pipes criss-crossing through the woods from 140 years ago. Really beautiful and neat place to run in this area.