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Continue reading →: Trail Journal IdentitiesA study in birth order and communication styles, I remain as surprised and delighted as ever by the contents of my sister’s Long Trail journal, which she completed during our 2021 thru-hike. The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Glastenbury Residency | Part OneThe dogs and I are five laps into our 2025 Glastenbury Residency. It seems like an apt time to pause and collect my thoughts on our opening salvo into this effort. The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Welcome to the Glastenbury Residency!How do you train for a 350 mile winter ultramarathon…when there isn’t snow yet? I’m gonna train by going to a mountain with my pups. The same mountain. Every Weekend. For the rest of the year. It’s one of my favorite spots. I call it ‘the Mountain that made me… The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitation (ITI) | Here we go againHi y’all—we’re skiing to McGrath. Again. For the first time. Wait…let me start over. Hello, Laura here. I’m skiing ITI again and set up a little GoFundMe to help collectively get us to the starting line. The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) Final 2024 Gear ListWell, it took me over a year, but as promised– Here is my master gear list from my ITI 2024 Ski. Because I am a luddite to my core, I cannot figure out how to embed it here. But here is the link! The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) 2025 | On Not Racing“ITI 2024 was about fortitude, about learning to go to the well and dig deeper to keep moving down the trail. This year, while not racing, it was gratitude that percolated up as the defining trait of my ITI 2025 experience. I felt it as deeply as I ever have…Even… The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Lady Mountaineers!“That looks really fun and kind of sketchy.” Mt. Washington (NH) is not breaking any height records. In the contiguous 48, it barely cracks the top 20, and once you add Canada and Alaska…it’s ostensibly nearly a blip on the North American topographical map. The mountain’s (comparably) low elevation and… The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Hot “Sled Dog Auntie” Summer Part 2 | Puppy Chaos“…and how many of them are you keeping?!” Origin Stories A key duty of my Sled Dog Auntiedom was keeping alive two imminently-arriving litters of puppies. Here is was my stance on puppies: they’re fine. Sure, they can be very cute. When I see a puppy, if the owner is… The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Hot ‘Sled Dog Auntie’ Summer Part 1 | BeginningsPart one of my Off-Season “Sled Dog Auntie’ summer adventure with Shady Pines Sled Dogs in Maine’s Mahoosuc Range The story continues!
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Continue reading →: The Archive | Solstice Presidential TraverseThe Summer Solstice weekend of 2022, I hiked the AT (aka longer) version Presidential Traverse. This is a fairly grueling 28 mile route in the best conditions. This weekend was…not the best conditions. Pretty historically rough up there. The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) Part 4 | The AftermathPart four of a 4-part trail journal documenting my experience Nordic Ski ing the ITI 350 Iditarod Trail Invitational 2024 The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) Part 3 | Finger Lake to RohnPart three of a 4-part trail journal documenting my experience Nordic Ski ing the ITI 350 Iditarod Trail Invitational 2024 The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) Part 2 | Race Start to Finger LakePart two of a 4-part trail journal documenting my experience Nordic Ski ing the ITI 350 Iditarod Trail Invitational 2024 The story continues!
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Continue reading →: Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) Part 1 | Prep & Lead UpPart one of a 4-part trail journal documenting my experience Nordic Ski ing the ITI 350 Iditarod Trail Invitational 2024 The story continues!
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Continue reading →: The Archive.I’m working on migrating some of my past favorites over here, but I didn’t want to distract from my ITI story. The story continues!
Hello,
I’m Laura
You may know me as @lrushfeldt on social media, or TypeTwo on the trail. I live in the city but my heart lives in the woods. I go on adventures with my dogs, Wylie and Wolfy (Wy&Wo), and I share our stories with a fun group of folks who seem to enjoy them, and each other. It’s very refreshing. Welcome, or welcome back. Let’s go to the mountains.
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