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Introducing The Tidy Table
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...
Turns All Year: 8 Years (Month 96)
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 cooling kiss of...
18 Outdoors People Who Need Wikipedia Pages
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...
The Uncomfortable Reality of Beacon Boob
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...
SheJumps Board Members: Q&A with Kristina Ciari
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 weeks. In...
Look What COVID Made Me Do
If you had told me two months ago I’d be knee deep in research about learning how to play the bagpipe, I would have knocked you upside the head with a cantor (which, for the uninitiated, is the bagpipe instrument part thingy). I’m not alone in a sudden change of heart. Lots of us are doing things we never would have considered before. Thanks to social media, I’ve compiled a list of said things, which I’m calling: Look What COVID Made Me Do!
9 New FKTs To Earn During COVID-19
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...
The Relative Merits of Different Household Items for Practicing Crevasse Rescue
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 excellent...
The New Rules of Sidewalk Yielding In The Age Of Coronavirus
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 sidewalk...
