Buckin’ It: A short mountain run adventure

OVERVIEW

Short, sweet, and STEEEEP. Bucks Elbow Mountain. Crozet. Come experience the legendary Crozet Classic, Carlos, a 2-mile up, 2-mile down beast. With about 2,000 feet of gain, its mostly a hike on the way up and a skid, slide, and soar on the way down. Despite the difficulty, this trail run is open to all people up for the challenge. I am happy to take it easy and do a good bit of walking. Other bonuses include: briefly escaping the grasp of worldly responsibility, sweet sweet sunset-ish views of the holy land, and getting to hang out with me.

Leave at 3:00 from Echols
Drive for 25 min.
Run a little over an hour
Think about what we’ve done for 15 minutes
Drive back
Get back at 5:15-30ish.

Bring:
Running shoes (trail shoes preferable but road shoes are good)
Headlamp (if shit goes south)
Some food if you are hypoglycemic like me
1L of water for the car
Warm clothes (not too many though)