March was a tough month to motivate to ski, but luckily I had a few fun events to get me back on skis for Turns All Year Month 29! The month kicked off with a She Jumps event to get the girls out on the slopes – and get out we did! Continuing my tradition of...
On February 19, I lost a friend to the mountains. Loren Miller was an expert telemark and downhill skier and an accomplished mountaineer and rock climber. While I was not one of Loren’s closest friends, I have known him for many years and spent a few...
The plan was thus: Drive to Mt. Shasta Friday after work (a mere 8hrs, 39mins from Seattle sans traffic) Make it to Bunny Flat trail head (6,940′) and camp at some point on Friday night/Saturday morning Get up and skin to high camp at Helen Lake...
After months of uber dry weather, mid-February brought us some serious dumpage, the likes of which haven’t been seen in these parts for years. Theresa and I celebrated by hitting Crystal mountain in our Seahawks-turquoise tutus on February 1, the day before we...
In the last installment of Turns All Year: The Tutu Adventures, I spent November and December skiing almost every weekend in sub-par conditions. January continued the trend, staying dry and keeping us powder hounds seeking new adventures.To start the year off right, I...
Lots of people wonder why I embrace being ridiculous. This may come as a surprise to most of you, but I didn’t always ski in tutus and travel with an action figure mascot. In fact, I wouldn’t even consider myself ‘outdoorsy’...
For the March/April edition of Mountaineer magazine, I was privileged to write about my friend Miles McDonough, a volunteer rescuer for both the Snohomish County Helicopter Rescue Team and Everett Mountain Rescue. Miles was already devoting his free time to rescue...
The snowpack in the PNW is pretty dismal. As I am writing this, it’s 50-degrees and sunny on a warm January day. While the rest of the country is complaining about the “Polar Vortex”, we are happily walking around in t-shirts and searching our homes...
The end of one year and the beginning of the next is momentous for many people, and I am no exception. I completed my first “year in review” blog in 2011, then did another in 2012, so it’s only fitting I would have one for 2013. Even though my...
Maybe someday the excitement of getting a shiny new magazine with my words in it will wear off, but for now I’m still super stoked to see my articles in print! For our January/February issue of Mountaineer, I wrote a piece on mixed climbing with Roger Strong. An...
