Chris Parker is a freelance writer, Senior Contributing Editor at Rock and Ice magazine and musician with a serious climbing addiction. Since migrating to the mountains from the Mississippi Delta a decade ago, he can be found roping up at crags during the day and singing songs with a guitar in hand at night throughout the west. REI Member since 2015.
Less than an hour’s drive east from the bustling city of Seattle is a gateway into pristine wilderness. The Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Valley—which boasts a n...
To run all day is one thing. To keep pounding the trail through the night while racing against a ticking clock is a level of suffering few are willing to endure...