I like data. I like spreadsheets and pie charts and visual representations of quantifiable information. I enjoy tracking my life on a calendar and using excel to track specific activities. If you’ve gone skiing, climbing, or running (and in some cases cycling or...
Moonlight skiing, complete with miniature cans of champagne, goes down in history as my best New Year Celebration ever. I’ve also been lucky to celebrate on a boat in Lake Union, with drinking uno in Patagonia, and I was in the FIRST time zone to enter the next...
Skiing this month has been a little like this:So. Much. Snow.With four ski days under my belt for the month, snow DUMPING in the mountains, a new pair of powder skis in the quiver, and seven more days left in the month I’m pretty damn stoked. Rather than go on...
On my 17th birthday, I didn’t know what to make of myself. For some reason, my entire life, I thought I was going to die at sixteen – most likely in an airplane accident. I cannot explain this feeling. But it was so strong that on the morning of the...
For November turns this year, Muir seemed to answer the ‘Where to ski?’ question. The tutu made three visits to the mountainside camp.Situated on the south side of Mt. Rainier at 10,188′, it’s both very accessible and incredibly remote. Muir is...
As “the girl who skis in a tutu,” people regularly ask me how to get started backcountry skiing, and I love introducing others to my favorite pastime. The more (safety-oriented, environmentally-conscious) BC skiers we can get out there the better. I’ve said...
To celebrate Thanksgiving this year, The Mountaineers is sending a message of thanks to its community. As the marketing manager, I’m primarily responsible for crafting and distributing this message. While I didn’t come up with the beautiful design below...
While on a hut trip in Canada, I learned of this amazing game called “What’s yours like?” Incredibly simple and requiring zero accoutrements to play, “What’s Yours Like?” is both an amazing get-to-know-you and disturbing...
My job is pretty incredible, and getting to hang out with Jim Whittaker in his living room a few weeks ago to make this film ranks up there on my list of all-time best life experiences.He’s such an accomplished man who approaches his achievements with a humble...
I consider myself very lucky. I’ve found a job that I love, and one of the things it’s afforded me is the ability to write “professionally”. Not only do I publish blogs for work on a pretty regular basis, I also get to write for our Mountaineer...
