Jump to the recipe… At the beginning of this whole pandemic thing, a doctor and climber friend of mine sent out an email about starting a pandemic journal to document his experiences at the clinic. He also suggested some pandemic reading to help put things in perspective. Needless to say, I have not pursued that…
Editor’s note: there are quite a few people landing here on my story about wearing a hiking skirt while recreating responsibly (got to love Google) and if that is you, you will find information about what I wear at the end of the post! The Friday before last I ventured out for a hike…
Jump to the recipe… In case you missed it, we passed right into May on Friday. MAY. Odds are my snowshoe adventures are over for this year and we will be lucky if we get to do some slushy postholing and snowbridge avoiding before it’s mosquito and wildfire season. But there’s no crying over…
I have a little note card taped to my desk at work with a quote from Nelson (Rolihlahla) Mandela that I am leaning on more and more these days: I received this card at a workshop on resiliency a few years ago and it struck a chord with me. Something about that quote…
There is no better time than right now to learn or hone up on your compass skills. I had signed up for a Mountaineers navigation class on March 14th as a refresher since it has been about 7 years since I took my last one officially. Of course, that was cancelled but I still want…
In looking towards this year’s backpacking season and what were some of the things I had not tried or added to my meal repertoire yet, yogurt instantly came to mind. I had heard of taking dehydrated yogurt drops on various hiking and backpacking meal blog posts but it hadn’t called to me. Until now. So…