Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.
Today’s 90-Second Escape: Waiting for Diane.
Since May 10, Diane Van Deren has been experiencing North Carolina in a way few others have: On foot, on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The Colorado ultrarunner set off from Clingman’s Dome with two goals: to get to know North Carolina and to cross the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in record time.
Here’s how she fared on the latter.
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