It’s 4am. It’s dark, it’s freezing, and the last thing you want to do is eat. Your cozy tent and warm sleeping bag are calling your name, but you must get up and force food down your pie hole because you’ll be spending the next 10ish hours...
In the outdoor community, we commonly talk about trips in terms of The Fun Scale. As a refresher, here’s the scale according to climber, writer, and self-proclaimed “Margarita-specialist” Kelly Cordes: Type I Fun – true fun, enjoyable while it’s...
When I head into the mountains, I always share a backcountry trip plan with an in town designated in-case-of-emergency-person. The lucky job usually falls to my good friend Q, who you may remember as the doggy-dad of one Mr. Porter Pants. What to include in the...
My butt gets cold. Dare I say, I have one of the coldest bottoms in the history of womankind. I struggled for years with debilitating “cold-butt syndrome”, but I’m happy to be here today and tell you: it gets better. You need just one key piece of...
I love that my job and my personal life have so many opportunities to overlap. For our spring edition of Mountaineer magazine (designed and edited by my lovely and talented colleague Suzanne Gerber), I got to write about the storied Mt. St. Helens tradition of...
Like most outdoor pursuits, you need a lot of stuff for backcounty skiing. Between hard goods and soft goods (and tutus) you can expect to spend anywhere from $2,000 to $12,000 to get outside. Yikes! Since you really do need all of this stuff, here’s a handy...
