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Bloomberg

We’ve been running for three and a half days now, passing through valleys aglow with yellow aspen groves. We’ve summited lung-busting peaks reaching almost 12,000 feet and hobbled among rocks beside slate-colored lakes. But suddenly my group, a small scrum of amateur endurance athletes, is presented with an unexpected challenge: How do we cross 30 feet of pavement?

That’s the question our guide Rickey Gates poses the only time we hit a road for the entire duration of the 100-mile Hut Run Hut in September. It’s a trek he leads every summer through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, following a delicate network of trails that’s absolutely baffling in its beauty. Gates, who hides an impish sense of humor under his bushy mustache, asks us to cross the Top of the Rockies Byway by any manner other than running—because we’ve been running for days, and we’ll be running for days to come. “So, what’ll it be?” he asks. “How you gonna cross it?”

Aspen Sojourner - The Long Run

“Does a six-day 100-mile running trip sound like it would appeal to relatively few people? It would most places, but hard-core runners frequent the Roaring Fork Valley in such numbers that Aspen Alpine Guides had to add a third installment of its Hut Run Hut outings for 2015 (see hutrunhut.com for dates). As the trips’ name suggests, the running—ten to twenty-five miles a day of it—is bookended by nights in the 10th Mountain Division Hut System between Aspen and Vail.”

Trail Runner Magazine

Professional trail runner (and Trail Runner contributing editor) Rickey Gates’s fun and adventurous trail-running camp takes participants over 100 miles of “hiking trails, lesser-used winter ski trails, jeep roads, some bushwhacking and ridge lines.” Starting in Vail, Colorado, 11 runners and five guides will run between 10 and 25 miles each day, sleeping in 10th Mountain Division Huts along the way.