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Go Ahead. Hike in a Tutu.
The alarm went off before the sun woke up. GrandBob roused the troops with coffee in hand, ready to start the day. We dined on the best corn bran and milk available from the local grocery, eating with plastic spoons while sitting in the back of a 1998 camper truck. By...
Mi Familia
Last week my Madre and one-half of the "twinnies" came out to visit. We did many things and it was amazing. Our amazing 4-day family festival included: Book of Mormon, skiing & snowboarding in tutus (if you can call what Michele was doing snowboarding), a...
2015: An Introspective + Petra Update
I like data. I like spreadsheets and pie charts and visual representations of quantifiable information. I enjoy tracking my life on a calendar and using excel to track specific activities. If you've gone skiing, climbing, or running (and in some cases cycling or...
Happy New Year!
Moonlight skiing, complete with miniature cans of champagne, goes down in history as my best New Year Celebration ever. I've also been lucky to celebrate on a boat in Lake Union, with drinking uno in Patagonia, and I was in the FIRST time zone to enter the next year...
Turns All Year: Month 50
Skiing this month has been a little like this:So. Much. Snow.With four ski days under my belt for the month, snow DUMPING in the mountains, a new pair of powder skis in the quiver, and seven more days left in the month I'm pretty damn stoked. Rather than go on and on...
The Power of a ‘Good Day’
On my 17th birthday, I didn't know what to make of myself. For some reason, my entire life, I thought I was going to die at sixteen - most likely in an airplane accident. I cannot explain this feeling. But it was so strong that on the morning of the big 1-7, I...
Turns All Year: Month 49
For November turns this year, Muir seemed to answer the 'Where to ski?' question. The tutu made three visits to the mountainside camp.Situated on the south side of Mt. Rainier at 10,188', it's both very accessible and incredibly remote. Muir is four miles and 4,640...
How To Get Started Backcountry Skiing
As “the girl who skis in a tutu,” people regularly ask me how to get started backcountry skiing, and I love introducing others to my favorite pastime. The more (safety-oriented, environmentally-conscious) BC skiers we can get out there the better. I've said before...
Happy Thanksgiving
To celebrate Thanksgiving this year, The Mountaineers is sending a message of thanks to its community. As the marketing manager, I'm primarily responsible for crafting and distributing this message. While I didn't come up with the beautiful design below (kudos to...
