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When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She even went skydiving to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Emily, already an accomplished ultrarunner, decided to try to break the record for the Fastest Known Time by a woman on the Pacific Crest Trail's 460 miles across Oregon. To the Gorge takes the listener through her seven days, nineteen hours, and twenty-three minutes on the trail, covering nearly sixty miles a day on foot over rugged terrain, and battling all the issues that could arise during such a monstrous undertaking. All the while, she simultaneously struggles with how to get through the profound grief of losing her mom. Interwoven with Halnon's eight-day effort are her remembrances from her mother's life and death, exploring the complicated experience of grief--and what shines through it. Filled with adventure and heart, To the Gorge invites listeners to consider what our greatest losses can teach us about how to live the one life we get.

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Emily Halnon is a writer, trail runner, and mountain athlete out of Eugene, Oregon. In addition to her Pacific Crest Trail run, she has finished in the top-ten at Hardrock 100 Mile Endurance Run, earned top finishes at races including the Siskiyou Out Back fifty-miler and JFK fifty-miler, and finished seven 100-milers, including Cascade Crest Endurance Run, Pine to Palm, and Javalina Jundred. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post, Runner's World, the Guardian, Salon, CNN, Women's Running Magazine, Trail Runner Magazine, Huffington Post, Adventure Journal, UltraSignup News, and has her own newsletter, Trail Mix. Emily Halnon is a writer, trail runner, and mountain athlete out of Eugene, Oregon. In addition to her Pacific Crest Trail run, she has finished in the top-ten at Hardrock 100 Mile Endurance Run, earned top finishes at races including the Siskiyou Out Back fifty-miler and JFK fifty-miler, and finished seven 100-milers, including Cascade Crest Endurance Run, Pine to Palm, and Javalina Jundred. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post, Runner's World, the Guardian, Salon, CNN, Women's Running Magazine, Trail Runner Magazine, Huffington Post, Adventure Journal, UltraSignup News, and has her own newsletter, Trail Mix.

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