by Kristina | Mar 12, 2020 | Montana, Turns All Year
When I started my Turns All Year journey, I never imagined I would make it to Month 100. What an obscure and meaningless and ridiculous pursuit this is. And yet, here I am. I’m happy to have reached this milestone, and happier in general because of the...
by Kristina | May 23, 2019 | Life, Montana
Hiding under an inverted canoe, a shield of epoxied fiberglass shards, we are almost able to keep our entire bodies out of the torrential rain. We’d been enjoying a leisurely float down the Jefferson when a sudden thunderstorm flooded the languid river, causing our...
by Kristina | May 9, 2019 | Life, Montana
The wood chips are frozen into mini-jagged peaks as angry breath clouds my face in the bitter air. “You think I can’t do it because I’m a GIRL!”, I shout, in my most confident-sounding second-grader voice. A group of older boys is fighting me...
by Kristina | Jul 1, 2018 | Montana, Mt. Rainier, Turns All Year
When you’ve been skiing for 78-months in a row, it’s easy to lose track of days and months. I like to compare it to your mid-twenties in terms of aging. At some point, you just forget how old you are. Skiing every month for as long as you can remember and...
by Kristina | Mar 3, 2018 | Montana, Skiing
When you get near 75 month of Turns All Year, everything starts to feel tenuous: am I going to pull a hamstring? Tear an ACL? Rip an achilles? Whether you’re at 18 months or 18 years. these questions plague you as you approach major milestones.I started...
by Kristina | Feb 10, 2018 | Montana, Skiing
In the town where I grew up, there exists a small gear shop. It’s packed to the brim with lovingly used skis and bikes and backpacks and activewear in need of a new home. Since my mom moved closer to downtown, the shop is a three-block walk from her front door....
