Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains of New York offer 300+ miles of marked trails with 35 peaks over 3,500 feet. These are some of the oldest mountains in the world and within a 2 hours drive of New York City.
Photos, Videos and Stories of Adventure from the Catskills
We headed up to the Catskills of New York for our last adventure of the year with some members from the MPF Adventure club to check out part of the WTF 100 course which is a new race for 2018 and includes a bit of off trail navigation.
"When I downloaded my GPS data from Catstail this year, the first “top result” listed was 400 meters in 71 seconds, my second best 400 on Strava. That was how we started the race. I don’t wear my watch for everything, but Catstail is a technical trail marathon with 7k of climb that takes 4.5 hours. Yes, the first 400m is downhill on a road, but that still doesn’t really make 4:44 pace a good idea. To put this in perspective, my mile PR is 4:34. This was a new level of “Coming in hot.”
A few weeks ago, Scott won the Barkley Fall Classic 50k in Tennessee and was awarded a highly coveted slot into the Barkley Marathons next spring. Scott reached out to me to get some bushwhacking experience...
Here is our video from the 2017 Cat's Tail Trail Marathon!
MPF client Matt Murphy shares his story about his first marathon and it just happened to be the 2017 Cat's Tail Trail Marathon in the Catskill Mountains of New York!
What a day it was at the 3rd running of the Cat's Tail Trail Marathon! Here are photos that MPF's Joe & Elizabeth Azze took along the marathon route.
Ben talks about his 2016 race at the Escarpment Trail Run and how his day went chasing after Matthias Lipsey again at the 2017 running of the mountain goats. This was his 18th Escarpment!
A quick recap from the weekend, including a video that follows Mathias Lipsey and Ben Nephew during their last couple of miles of the Escarpment Run and captures the sights and sounds of the finish line.
This was a race for the ages! It was the 5th running of one of the more rugged 50 mile trail ultramarathons in the US. It was a very dark day, with hot, humid and wet conditions. Not the ideal situation for photographs but the perfect conditions for an epic adventure.
Just a quick story about a photo.
Amy was attempting her 5th consecutive finish of the Manitou's Revenge Ultramarathon & Relay and become one of the only athletes to have successfully completed this epic adventure each year since the inaugural running in 2013. It was a fight to the end.
This is a 54 mile adventure that runs through the heart of the Catskill Mountains of New York. These are extremely rugged and mountainous trails. This was Ben's 2nd time running the race. In 2014 he placed 2nd to Jan Wellford. Coming off an injury, Ben wasn’t sure how his day would go...
Here is just 4 minutes of the 13+ hours it took MPF RNR athlete Kehr Davis to negotiate the 54 miles from Big Hollow Road to Phoenicia, NY on some of the most challenging terrain the East Coast has to offer.
I "Was Live" from the 2017 Manitou's Revenge Ultramarathon and Relay at mile 34ish on Indian Head Mountain, Devils Path!
Our latest film is about 20 minutes and takes us to the Catskill Mountains of New York where we have a casual discussion with Ben as we climb Blackhead Mountain before we get to see what he does best.