LLRULE JOURNALS — TRAILHEAD
THE TRAIL DECIDES.
Dispatches from the ridgelines, switchbacks, and coastlines we run. Real trails, real stats, earned miles.
TRAILHEAD A Trail Running Series by LLRULE
Sedona After Sunrise: Red Rock Before the Heat
The red rocks of Sedona hold heat from the day before. Run them at first light, when the temperature is still in the fifties and...
Malibu Creek: The Santa Monicas' Best Kept Secret
Twenty-six miles from the Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu Creek State Park holds 4,000 acres of California chaparral, volcanic rock, creek crossings, and a trail system...
Columbia River Gorge: Wind, Basalt, and Wildflowers
The Columbia River Gorge holds more waterfalls per square mile than anywhere in North America. In spring, the basalt walls run with snowmelt and the...
Zion Narrows: The River Is the Trail
There is no trail through the Zion Narrows. There is only the Virgin River and a thousand feet of Navajo sandstone pressing in from both...
Hurricane Ridge: Above the Clouds
The Olympic Mountains hold snow until July. The views from Hurricane Ridge reach across the Strait of Juan de Fuca into Canada. This is the...
Point Reyes: Running the Edge of the World
Fog. Elk. A two-hundred-foot cliff above the Pacific. The Bear Valley to Arch Rock corridor is one of the most dramatic trail runs on the...
Yosemite Sentinel Dome
At 8,122 feet, Sentinel Dome delivers one of the most rewarding views in the Sierra Nevada, and only asks two miles from you to earn...
Running Yosemites Most Scenic - Mirror Lake Loop
Mirror Lake is not a destination, it is a mirror. Five miles through the floor of Yosemite Valley, with Half Dome doubling itself in still...
Chase the Falls: Running Whatcom Falls Park
The falls are the destination, but the miles getting there are the point. A technical loop through old-growth forest, creek crossings, and stone bridges.
TERRAIN
The Creek and the Break
When herbicide from Orange County flood channels ran into the surf, Creek Team OC started filming, and made the results public.
After the Fire
Black Summer burned 46 million acres and forced ecologists to rewrite everything they thought they knew about how forests recover.
The Underwater Forest
From California to Tasmania, kelp forests are vanishing at alarming speed. In Norway and Japan, scientists are racing to bring them back.
ROOTS: A Day in the Life of Planting Forests
Follow a professional tree planter into Oregon's Coast Range, one seedling, one hole, one slope at a time, and see why reforestation is upstream of...
"I Saw a Bird Today – Rediscovering Wonder in the Wild"
We have forgotten how to look. A single bird sighting can unlock something ancient in us, a capacity for attention that the modern world keeps...
THE DRIFT
The Fly Box
The fly box is a record of where you have been and what the river asked for. The patterns that earn their place, and how...
The Smith River Float
The Smith River does not give itself up easily. A permit lottery, 59 miles of canyon from Camp Baker to Eden Bridge, and a float...
Cold Water, Warming Fast
A July reading of 72 degrees on the Yellowstone River is the temperature at which trout stop feeding. What warming western waters mean for the...
The Henry's Fork: A River That Humbles
Four miles of Railroad Ranch on Idaho's Henry's Fork. The fish are large, the water is clear and slow, and the river humbles everyone who...
Before the Hatch
The sky is graphite, the thermometer reads 41 degrees, and the river is talking before anyone else is listening. This is the hour before the...
The Deschutes: High Desert, Cold River
The Deschutes drops out of the Cascades and runs 252 miles through the Oregon high desert, carrying summer steelhead and native redband trout through basalt...
Go before the heat arrives. Red rock. 5:30am. The trail is yours.
Running Sedona
DISPATCH
Adventure Sky + Cliff
Free flight is foot-launched flying with no engine. The best of it happens low and close, a few meters off a ridge, a dune, or...
The Cotton That Earns Its Name
It started in the Arizona desert in 1900 and took its name from the people who grew it. Today it is about 1% of the...
What Garment Dye Actually Is
Garment dye means sewn first, dyed after: the process behind every one-of-one LLRULE piece, why the fade is intentional, and how washing makes it better.
Building More Than Activewear – The Vision Behind LLRULE
Performance is table stakes. What we're actually building at LLRULE is a framework for how apparel can exist in the world without doing damage.
Mountains to Sea: The Geography of How We Move
Where high terrain falls quickly to open ocean, the same kind of person appears. Surf break to ridgeline, ocean to summit, they are the people...
Why We Write: The Journal We Keep
The trail before dawn. The river in October. The garden in the last week before frost. The break when the conditions finally align. The journals...
