2009 MMT Photo Update
May 17, 2009 by Bryon Powell · 3 Comments
A lazy, hazy morning on the Shenandoah river
Ferns along the “trail” into the Gap Creek aid station. (Can you find the trail?) 
Mario Raymond along the same trail. (Can you find the ferns?)
A smiling Greg Loomis at Gap Creek 1 
Three happy trails(l-r: Bobby Gill, rock-free MMT single-track, Keith Knipling)
A fan eagerly awaiting the arrival of a runner at the Visitors Center AS
Love among the rocks[Trail Goat Note: This picture of Adam and Kadra Casseday struck me
for the obvious adoration Adam shows for Kadra amidst his suffering.]
A late afternoon break in the weather
A braided redbud with locust doppelganger Bonus iPhone Photos:
All the photos you’ve seen in the other iRunFar 2009 Updates were taken on an iPhone. Here are a few other iPhone photos that didn’t make it into an earlier update.
Amy Sproston, the 2008 AND 2009 MMT women’s champion, at Camp Roosevelt
A car-bound view of the day’s first storm
Second place finisher Glen Redpath at 211 East.We hope you enjoyed this photo update and all of iRunFar’s 2009 MMT Updates. Please let us know how we can improve our future updates.]
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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Fine Photos — thank you for posting!
Bryon, awesome, awesome job on the updates and photos. Thanks so much for allowing me to experience MMT vicariously.
Thanks, Z and Caren. I’m glad you enjoyed the updates. I know I had a blast providing them. Even though I’ll be living across the country next year, I hope I’ll be able to come back and do the same thing at MMT next year.