This is what it looks like to participate in turns all year for 8 years (96 months)… My phone is tucked safely beneath the tulle of my tutu’s waistband. I’m climbing up the Muir Snowfield with skis and skins on my feet, enjoying the sunny skies and...
Wikipedia has a bias problem. Join the efforts to change the narrative about who belongs in the outdoors by helping create pages for these 18 people. My friend Allison Cusick is an Antarctic Oceanographer. She spends a lot of time in the lab and about three months a...
I inadvertently kicked off a beacon storm with a post on Instagram complaining about wearing my avalanche transceiver. Specifically, I was griping about wearing it in a harness instead of in a pocket. Like most outdoor products, beacon harnesses/holsters are designed...
COVID has made it hard to motivate to write for my own blog of late. But I’ve still done a lot of writing. I contributed a few blogs lately to SheJumps, and just completed the next edition of Mountaineer magazine. I’m working on a few posts for the coming...
In this edition of Look What COVID Made Me Do…. Every Friday night near my house, a Johnny Appleseed-like, Scottish-kilt wearing savior walks my neighborhood playing the bagpipes. When we learned about him a few weeks ago, hubs and I followed the bagpiper for 45...
An FKT, or Fastest Known Time, is a speed record on any given route. First popularized by “extreme” athletes, FKTs became mainstream with the launch of Strava and their King/Queen of the Hill designation. Soon, all sorts of “athletes” were setting “records” for any...
Based on the whelming response to last week’s Sidewalk Yielding blog, I’m guessing a few of you have time on your hands. Might I suggest using your free time to practice crevasse rescue? Building Z-pulleys and J-pulleys and 45-to-1 pulleys is not only...
Gone are the days of passing people mindlessly on the sidewalk, eyes downcast to avoid human interaction. Now every block is full of obstacles and danger, all of us pawns in a giant game of Frogger. Or maybe it’s Packman? Regardless, there are new rules for...
If you, like me, are struggling to adjust to the new normal in the age of Coronavirus, you may have turned to your favorite alcoholic beverage and accidentally got drunk on a Tuesday. (Or was it Monday?) I’m not here to judge. I want to help. That’s why I’m excited to...
With the early closure of the ski resorts, lots of skiers are lamenting the end of ski season. Yes, even me, the girl who skis uphill in a tutu most of the time. To help you through this tough time, here are 7 hybrid ski words you can work into every day conversation...
