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Mike Foote

Mike Foote

Montana-based professional ultrarunner and ski mountaineer, co-founder and race director of The Rut Mountain Runs, and The North Face athlete.

Aug 5, 2026

10:44
I'm wondering how you're handling that.
10:46
Yeah.
10:47
I mean, just like anything, it's so nuanced and there's, there's, it ebbs and flows and, and feelings change or evolve over time.
10:54
I think some of the things that really ground me are this idea of, you know, action over apathy.
11:01
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about hope and despair, and I think, and obviously this is informed by things I hear from other, you know, thinkers, writers, authors, um, you know, interesting people that I follow or read.
11:17
Um, but this idea of hope as, you know, is, is truly an action.
11:21
It's not like a thought or a feeling.
14:56
So what changed or really crystallized for you on that project?

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