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Happy New Year!
At the end of December, it's fun to reflect on memories that made us smile and consider what things we'd like to leave behind as we enter a New Year. A lot of things made me smile in 2017. Small pieces of gear like a down skirt and a pee funnel. A pair of women's...
Recovery in the Mountains: From Getting High to Getting High
One step at a time. It can be slow, and often painful, but you can always take one more step. That’s how you climb mountains, and that’s how you recover from addiction. Nik Jensen knows the trials and tribulations of both. I don’t remember meeting Nik, suffice to say...
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...
