Hello Backboners!

Please note that there is a February 1st deadline to act on your deepest fears and cancel your 2013 Coyote Backbone Trail entry. Those backing out on or before that date will a full refund of their participation donation, minus a $25 processing fee. Entry fees for those signing up to play, or bowing outta’ the game, after February 1st will be considered a generous contribution to the hijinks of the remaining pranksters. They thank you in advance.

And don’t forget about the free-and-open-to-all training runs. Details on those can be found here. Please be sure to RSVP as indicated.

Awwwhoooo! See you on the Backbone!

That’s Gingerbread Young, along with her posse Vulcan Polley, Hurdle Holmes, and Wedge Black. Yo, yo, yo, welcome to the par-tay, people! The rest of the crew’s listed here. See you on the Backbone!

Hi hoes, hi hoes, it’s off to work you go. Here’s your chance to give back(bone): the Santa Monica Mountains Trail Council will lead a trail maintenance day this Saturday, January 19th from 8:30 to 2:00. Details and map to the meeting spot can be found here; please RSVP to the group leader as noted. Better than a trip through Butt Crack Rock for making you feel more virtuous.

Future Backboners (we hope!) do their part.

The pipeline for entering just got unsquoze… those slow to sign up now have more chances to get in, woo-HOO!!

A hearty Coyote Backbone welcome to the recently unsquozen: Cococino Dones, BlueFin McMonagle, Piston Ortell, Pyrite Warren, Squeeky Phan, Junko Swan, 6Pack Schutz, and Blisteroon Morrison. Good to have you off the bench! Full list of entrants is here.

Now that you’re committed, or your friends and family are wishing you were, don’t forget about the training runs we have scheduled. Full details on those here.

A few drops means we have been able to offer official entrant status to a lucky  few from our wait list. We are sorry some of you won’t be able to make it, but every time a door bangs shut a window flies open for a coyote to climb through –  or something like that. Welcome to the latest bunch of pranksters who will be out running in our fields: SandFlee Singer, Argonut Seabury, Sparkles Vlach, Cringe Mann, and Salamander Moehl. The current team roster can be found here.

For official players, wait listers or wanna-beez, we’ve set up a series of 4 training runs. Details are here, please RIZVIP using the links provided.

Bring more of everything than you think you need, you are responsible for your own selves out there. Awwwhooo!

With the latest round of entrants (newbies noted below, full list here), we’ve reached our limit for the inaugural Coyote Backbone Trail Ultra. For those of you who pushed aside your grave concerns about your (and our) mental health and signed up early, we send our thanks and condolences. For those of you who procrastinated, we will have a wait list. And also a beer waiting for you at the aid station at which we’d love you to help out at if’n you don’t get in. Happy New Years, people, can’t wait to do the Backbone with you!

Jerry and Chris welcome a new year on the Backbone Trail
(photo: Deb Clem)

Welcome to Wildman Floyd (UT), Rosebud Homelvig (CO), Shtinkie Bon (CA), Einschtein Frenzel (CA), Whee Weston (CA), Pantetto Quesada (CA), Hambone Overstreet (CA), BeeBop Benna (NV), Muffler Hone (CA), Langusto Fish (CA), Oro Sherman (CA), Senator Thompson (TX), Ectosplat Meskell (CA).

Just a few chances left for your shot at tracking the Yeti. We are nearing capacity for the Backbone Trail Ultra (140 out of 150 slots filled), after that we will start a wait list.

Oh, and prices go up on January 1st. Whatcha’ waiting for?

photo courtesy H’ard Cohen

On Lupine, On MudFlap, on NeedleNose Fisher.
On Rambler, On Big Hickey, On HighWire Smithberger.
On KrugLite, on Goombah, On Jennzilla Dicus.
And Conita, Sharkeye, Droid, Widget, and SlingShot.

To the top of ButtCrack and mind  you don’t fall, now dash away, dash away, dash away y’all.

Merry Christmas to Santa’s latest helpers from the BurgerMeister MeisterBurger and the rest of the Coyote Crew!!!

5 more entrants experience the unique blend of excitement and anxiety induced by seeing their names added to the roster. Feline the wintery mix of emotions are: HangNail Samis, Dangereux Sanger, DraWinga Blank, FlyingKnickers Winfield, and WhaleBone Fish. Find the full list of 125 players here. Who knew we had such a-peel?