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Turns All Year: Month 89
After a more-exciting-than-I'd-like February, where we skied and also wrecked our truck on black ice (see Part 1 and Part 2 of TAY 88), I was excited to take a week-long trip to do a little cabin skiing in Alaska. Alas, Alaska had other plans and we did a lot of flat...
5 Reasons To Get Lasik For Your Active Life
Nine years later Lasik, it still stands as the best investment I’ve ever made for my active life. Not having glasses makes everything easier! After wearing glasses or contacts from ages 6-26, I can’t tell you how freeing it is to wake up and see the world every day. I want you to experience this magic too!
An Alaskan Respite: Eklutna Lake
The rumbling sound is low and persistent, its origins a mystery. We are skinning next to the vast, frozen Eklutna Lake and, even though we're miles from the nearest road, it almost sounds like someone is listening to music with heavy bass off in the distance. The...
How To: Prevent “Chaco Creep”
The sunlight warms the pasty skin beneath my toenails as I feel my toe-hairs rustle gently in the springtime breeze. After many months trapped inside closed-toed, sock-stuffed, freedom-restricting shoes, my feet are released, yet again, into the world. It’s a sunny March day in Seattle, and I’ve decided it’s officially Chaco season.
Outdoor Camping Fails
We’d driven the parking loop not once, but twice. Visiting Mt. Saint Helens for the first time this season, the Sippel Sisters and I were looking for a perfectly level, sunny spot to camp. After deciding no such unicorn existed, we chose a primo location nearish the toilet that was strategically upwind from the stench (and away from other would-be summitteers). All we had to do now was erect our 3-man tent in the fading sunlight, and score some Zzzzs before the early morning start. Only, we were missing one critical item.
How To Go To The Iditerod
The shrieking outbursts are so loud you need heavy-grade ear protection to walk down the street. People had warned me the dogs were loud, but I was woefully underprepared for the volume of their exuberance. Standing in the staging area at the 2019 Iditarod, watching...
Turns All Year: Month 88 (Part II)
As previously mentioned, skiing in February didn't go as planned. Month 88 of Turns All Year had everything: The Good: My first skimo race; an unbelievable snowstorm; a “we were published” celebration; a ride up a 17mph rope tow.The Bad: Massive blisters....
Turns All Year: Month 88 (Part 1)
Things don't always go as planned. That's the theme of skiing in February 2019. Month 88 of Turns All Year had everything: The Good: My first skimo race; an unbelievable snowstorm; a "we were published" celebration; a ride up a 17mph rope tow.The Bad: Massive...
How To Blow The Perfect Snot Rocket
With a snort, the single coagulated snot ball exits your nostril in a perfect arc over your right shoulder. It’s cold and your nose is like a sieve that just won’t stop. You’ve been sniffing at this thing for hours with no relief, and you’re without a handy hanky....
