by Kristina | Sep 14, 2020 | Life
How I Told Him is Part II of a three-part series exploring our not-so-straightforward pregnancy/fertility journey. Visit Musings of a Maybe-Mama for Part I, and check back Thursday for Part III. Three soft horns protrude from the woven green fabric at odd angles,...
by Kristina | Sep 10, 2020 | Life
This, Musings of a Maybe-Mama, is Part I of a three-part series exploring our not-so-straightforward pregnancy/fertility journey. Check back soon for Parts II and III. I may might be pregnant. For 6-months my husband and I have been sort-of, but-not-really, trying. We...
by Kristina | Aug 20, 2020 | Advice, Travel
You snap the tab at the corner and peel back the cover of your bite-sized packet of Nutella. Its nutty, chocolatey goodness instantly coats the inside of your nostrils. Picking up the knife, you gingerly paint the perfect piece of toast in a fine layer of your...
by Kristina | Jul 24, 2020 | Turns All Year
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...
by Kristina | Jul 2, 2020 | Lists, Outdoor Industry
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...
by Kristina | May 21, 2020 | Outdoor Industry
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...
by Kristina | May 14, 2020 | Nonprofit, SheJumps
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...
by Kristina | Apr 30, 2020 | Life
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...
by Kristina | Apr 16, 2020 | Advice, How To
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...
by Kristina | Apr 9, 2020 | Advice, Gear
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...
