Sunset at SF Bay Area
Sunset and city light at SF Bay Area
Sunset and city light at SF Bay Area (Bay Bridge below)
Pre-race Welcome Lunch (me, Steve, Miki, Tony, Hao)
Leaving for the 10am race start (Miki, Tony, Hao, Steve)
Me
Parking area at the race start
Start line
Race check in
All aid station food!!
Race start area
Race breakfast
Am I ready?
Charlie, the RD, pre-race briefing
racecrossoregon
Team Ohlone (me and Steve)
Team Ultraholics (Steve, Hao, and me)
Me and Lisa Bliss
Pacer
National Anthems for Canada and USA
National Anthem
Race started
Run toward the mountains
Cheered by racecrossoregon
A wooden bridge on the single track
Easy on the climb
Patiently in one file
Getting warmer
Hao Liu
The first aid station
Wrong way
The longest string of runners I've ever seen
Rock climbing?
Approaching goat rock
Photo spot. Thanks Glenn Tachiyama!
Keep cresting up
A string of runners
At the top of Cascade :)
Running with motocycles?
We are fighting for the space on the single track climb :)
Hao Liu on the climb
Aid station
Similar to running with horse riders in Vermont, we're with motorcycle riders.
All the way down, a few miles of down hill
Karl Jensen
Busy at re-supplying at aid station
Rocky trail
Switchback
William Emerson, WS DVD star, winning Cascade 2001 and many other races
Gorgeous trail everywhere!
tree crossing, a warmup for "trail from the hell"
Never lack of O2 for runners from CO
so many tree crossing, a warmup for "trail from the hell"
Tacoma Pass is there
Tacoma Pass aid station
Can you see snow capped Mt. Rainier?
So green everywhere!
a trail side aid station
Stampede Pass aid station
Cross the creek gulch at trail from the hell.
a nice part of "trail from the hell"
crossing Mineral Creek
Mineral Creek aid station
Hao Liu got helped from Tony
Happy Steve baths his feet at the finish.
