by Kristina | Aug 25, 2017 | Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
I have not been motivated to ski this summer. Maybe it’s been all of the housework or the streak of sunny days, or maybe it’s that – after 69 consecutive months of chasing anything that remotely resembles snow – I’m a little...
by Kristina | Jul 27, 2017 | Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
When it comes to chasing Turns All Year, some years are easier than others. Sometimes you go big, carving turns every weekend, and some years you begrudgingly trudge into the mountains to make your obligatory turns one day a month. This summer has been the...
by Kristina | Jun 29, 2017 | Tutu
In 1987, a woman named Kathy Phibbs took four girlfriends to the top of Mt. St. Helens wearing a red chiffon dress. The mountain had been closed to climbing for 7 years after the 1980 eruption, and she felt the occasion called for special attire. At the top, she...
by Kristina | Apr 7, 2017 | SheJumps, Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
It turns out, you can get too much of a good thing. After skiing my face off for 11 days in February, something had to break, and it was me. And the weather. We can blame the weather too.For March – month 65 of Turns All Year – I got in three days of...
by Kristina | Mar 9, 2017 | Backcountry, Costumes, Publications, Skiing, The Mountaineers, Turns All Year, Tutu
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...
by Kristina | Mar 2, 2017 | Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
If I thought skiing in January was great, then skiing in February was absolutely phenomenal! Hands down one of my best months ever on snow. With 11 days in 2 states and 2 countries – none of which were my home state of Washington – I covered 77,000 vert,...
