wildfire

America’s hard-bitten wildland firefighters are switching gears in the off-season to run ultra distances

In the fourth installment of The Backyard Stories, we travel to Southern California, to visit trail athlete and fruit-grower Nick Brown at his family’s farm, in an ecosystem where increasing wildfire is a reality.

We all know climate change is changing where and when we run, but watching your training ground burn makes the crisis impossible to ignore.