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How it All Began
The Western States Trail finds its origins with the Native People who lived as hunters and gatherers as part of sophisticated trade and seasonal migration patterns who moved across the Great Basin from what is modern-day Utah into northern Nevada, California and the mountains around Lake Tahoe. From their various ancestral homes, these routes of seasonal migration proved key. The Washoe people, for example, traveled to the shores of Lake Tahoe “
Da ow aga” (“edge of the lake”) to harvest spring plants, to pick berries and seeds that had both nutritional and medicinal value and to catch the lake’s native fish. With the arrival of white explorers and settlers years and years later, the footprints of the Native People would prove to be a guide, a link through the wilderness, and would aid another group of people on their journey.
Gordy
Ainsleigh ran, there has been at least one Lind family member at the
Western States 100 every year. With so much of that knowledge captured and passed on through the years, I have to imagine it will be an advantage,” says 25-year-old
Cody Lind of his thinking about his first-ever 100-mile race this coming June at the Western States 100.
Cody, son of two-time Western States finisher
Paul Lind and grandson of legendary Western States medical director and 30-year Western States Board of Directors member
Dr.
Bandera 100k earlier this month.
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Editor’s Note: To learn more about the Lind family, read AJW’s tribute to Dr. Bob Lind in 2016 and our WeRunFar profile of Paul Lind from 2017.]