TRULY UNIQUE HIKING ADVENTURES
TREKKING GRAND CANYON NORTH RIM, SOUTH RIM, BRYCE CANYON, ZION NATIONAL PARK IN 2009 & 2010 PLUS HIKING SCOTLAND AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN 2010.
PLANNED FOR 2009 & 2010 Coach Ron Gunn's Adventure Tours for the chronologically enhanced but young at heart. Many of our adventurers are 40+, some are retired from their life work but not from their life, and we have college students and 20 somethings who enjoy our trips. Many marathon runners and other athletes enjoy the coach's trips but often the most rewarding experiences happen to those with a limited athletic background. With good coaching most succeed in accomplishing a goal they might have thought impossible. Coach Gunn's gift is to lead you to your best physical potential and then reward this accomplishment by escorting you through places the casual tourist will never see in person. Millions will see the Haleakala Crater in Hawaii but Coach Gunn will hike you through it. Millions of visitors to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon lose their breath looking at the beauty and grandeur but Coach Gunn will hike you through it to see it like only a fraction of one percent will ever see! (EMAIL YOUR INTEREST FOR 2010 TRIP)
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Coach Gunn's Running/Trekking Friends Letter 4-24-09
Many of our marathoners say that a day-hike through Grand Canyon is a greater challenge than running 26 miles, yet it is more rewarding. It is the endurance not the speed that allows for a successful hike through Grand Canyon and with the time to take in this most extraordinary experience.
What is it like to hike Rim to Rim?
Sport Walking Video by Coach Ron Gunn
Steve's Run 5k/10k Trail Course Description
2009 GRAND CANYON VI
Best Of The West
2009 Trip Description
(NOTE: Information Meetings will resume winter 2009/10)
Deposit Form
and A Tribute to Al Potter
our Aqua Perpetuus water man!
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Coach Ron Gunn describes the experience of completing the Rim to Rim extreme day-hike this way, "it is an intensely personal experience."
Coach Gunn has trained 136 collegiate All Americans and eight NJCAA national championship teams, and has coached hundreds of chronologically enhanced adults to succeed with completing a marathon. Many graduates of Ron's Marathon Training class still meet each Monday night to run or walk in fellowship and to stay fit (MNRC).
Now, in addition to the Extreme Sports program at SMC (Southwestern Michigan College), Coach Gunn organizes adventure tours. Living his dream, he trains and then escorts the participants through some of the most interesting and wonderful experiences of a lifetime.
SMC Extreme Sports
- TRAINING SCHEDULE ~ HIKES FEB 7 - SEP 13
TRAINING PARTNERS: Train for your running and walking goals or events every two weeks on our marked and monitored courses. And have access to Coach Gunn for personal training advice as well as attend the informative lecture before each hike (2009 Training Schedule).
Training Partners have access to the members only areas of this web site for all of 2009.
Become a 2009 Training Partner for just $100. [Includes 16 unique courses to hike and 14 lectures by Coach Gunn plus access to his training material on this web site until 2010]
For photos from previous trips of ordinary people doing the extraordinary and having the time of their lives. (click here)
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Trip Information Meetings will resume winter 2009/10
