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First Tracks and Cracks – You and four college friends who flew in to help celebrate your birthday are doing an early season (Dec.) backcountry ski near Leadville. Everyone is doing fine and though you are tired and it’s getting a bit late (3:00 pm) you decide to do one last run. You slap the […]
Narrow Miss? – You are on a three-day southern Utah canyoneering trip in late October with 3 friends. You are all in your mid-twenties. It is the afternoon of day two, in a very narrow side canyon when come up to a “pour off” where your side canyon joins a bigger flow. It’s about a […]
Run Amok – It is early October and you are on a trail run up above Golden (CO), about 3 miles from the trailhead when it starts to rain. It is 2 pm with temps in the high 40s (F), with a moderate (10-15 mph) wind. The trail takes a steep drop and at the […]
Race to the Finish – You are working the medical tent at the finish of the Cascade Mountains Ultra Marathon. It is Washington and around 5000 feet (1500 meters) so not hideously hot, but it is August so it’s definitely still hot with afternoon temps in the 90s. The race started at 5 am to […]
Over the next eight days, many pre-meds will find themselves in one last push of proofreading in a dash to May 30th. Why? May 30th is the date that the AMCAS application is finally open for submission. This date marks the culmination of years of academic, clinical, research, and volunteer experiences for many pre-meds. Since the […]