All the newsletters and correspondence from Coach Gunn to the Mountain Sheep Grand Canyon hikers and to the Training Partners will be listed below for your convenience to read online or download and print.
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NEWSLETTERS:
February 20, 2008 Cool Start for Best of the West
“The will to prepare to win is far more important than the will to win."
Robert Knight
March 1, 2008 Higdon Hill
“The state of a persons health is often determined by what you take two at a time – pills or stairs!”
March 19, 2008 Love At First Sight
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
March 24, 2008 Snow Bunnies
Repeat for Grand Mere announced.
April 2, 2008 Grand Day at Grand Mere
“If you come to an unmarked fork on a training course and one trail is flat but the other goes uphill, there is a 110% chance that Ron's course goes up the hill!”
Marlin Schmidt (paraphrased) 4 time Grand Canyon extreme hike veteran
April 16, 2008 Swiss Valley Ski Area
April 30, 2008 A Walk in the Park at Potato Creek
May 23, 2008 “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we have been, and the memories we have made along the way”
June 5, 2008 “We are certainly FIRED UP after that great hike last weekend! We learned a few things and are adjusting our workouts to include even more cardio to get up the mountains faster!”
Keith and Katrina Andrews
June 25, 2008 Did It At Niles
“FIRE UP FOR BREATH TAKING MOMENTS”
Coach Gunn
July 9, 2008 ATTITUDE AND HOF RULE AT ST. MARY'S
"Attitude is more important than facts,than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do."
Charles Swindoll
July 30, 2008
WE NAILED IT AT LOVE CREEK!
“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by spectacular preparations.” Anonymous August 20, 2008 A LOT OF HEART AND DETERMINATION AT RUSS FOREST “Extreme Hiking is a great metaphor for life;You get out of it what you put into it!” “The clearest way to the Universe is through a heavily wooded forest!” Unknown “Through determined hard work, not luck, the Grand Canyon V team made Manistee magic!” Coach Gunn “The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and miss all that you are travelling for!” Louis L'Amour
September 11, 2008 MOVIN' OUT AT MANISTEE
September 22, 2008 THE HAY IS IN THE BARN!
October 15, 2008 BIG HEADS RULE AT BEST OF THE WEST Coach Gunn
“Out of Adversity Comes Greatness”