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Are You Okay?
“Are you okay?” I look up from my backpack to see two men cresting the hill around 7,400 ft. I’m alone on the southeast flank of Mt. Rainier, where Pebble Creek kisses the tip of the Muir Snowfield. I’ve been in this spot 40+ times in recent years, and today I’m...
Happy Thanksgiving
To celebrate Thanksgiving this year, The Mountaineers sends a message of thanks to its community. As the communications director, I'm primarily responsible for crafting and distributing this message. Every year I feel moved by the way it comes out (here's...
How To Fake a Blister
As a life-long skier and one-time marathon finisher, I'm generally game to try anything. Ice skating. Sky diving. Underwater basket weaving. But just because you try something doesn't mean you have to like it, so here's a fool proof way to fake an injury to get out...
Close Your Face: 6 Years of Turns All Year
#TeamTutu: Reporting for duty!It was the type of day that was so fun you spent its entirety with your face gaping open.I've been skiing at least one day a month for the last 71 months, and this trip was my only chance for turns in October. My earlier-in-the-month...
10 Tips to Overcoming Post Vacation Stress Disorder (PVSD)
I've been having a week, and it's only Wednesday. Maybe it's the change in weather, maybe it's the dread I'm feeling at having to avoid pounds of Halloween candy in the next few weeks (a task at which, no doubt, I will fail), or maybe it's the fact that I just got...
5 Camping Hacks For Your Next Trip
My parents had a VW Bus when I was a kid, and some of my earliest memories involve camping in that van. My dad would pack everything up, my mom would load me and my twin sisters into the back, and we'd drive down a dirt road for what felt like forever until we'd land...
Here’s To Wild Places
I'm humbled and excited to share this video with you. 'Video Producer' is not a title I ever thought I could add to my resume, but after the success of the We Are Mountaineers video I got to partner again with the incredible Mike Short on this piece...
7 Tips To Nail A Nonprofit Job Interview
At the nonprofit where I work, I do a lot of hiring and interviewing. An average job posting receives 50 applications. I've combed through thousands of resumes and sat in hundreds of interviews at this point. And I'm here to tell you, there's a right way and a wrong...
Turns All Year: Month 70
I have not been motivated to ski this summer. Maybe it's been all of the housework or the streak of sunny days, or maybe it's that - after 69 consecutive months of chasing anything that remotely resembles snow - I'm a little tired. By this time last summer...
