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...
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...
Earlier this week, someone commented on a link I posted to Facebook a few months ago, kicking off a flurry of new activity. The original post was a blog I wrote in January about White Privilege in the Outdoors, in which I talked about owning my white privilege to...
I hate purses. I pretty much always have. In college, when I felt compelled by society to carry a purse, I bought a few cheap small ones at the ROSS or Goodwill. Like every other band-geek-sorority-girl-wanna-be, I strutted around with my little bag on one shoulder...
This week Backpacker Magazine posted an article about diversity in the outdoors. In “How Do We Make The National Parks More Diverse?”, author Ted Alvarez presented four perspectives from experts discussing ways in which we can help break down barriers and...
I recently joined the board of the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) – our local avalanche forecast and education center – and I’m really excited to learn more about the nonprofit and its mission. When I started backcountry skiing 5-years ago, I had...
