Jump to the recipe… This is going to be harder than I thought. Turns out, I am having a hard time doing a lot of the things that make me happy, not just hiking and being outdoors. Aside from simply being exhausted from recovery, by the end of the day I am not accomplishing much…
Isn’t that what ol’ Jagger said? I write a post about my strong need for solitude and to feel alive, then I hop in the car and head up to a remote trail on the northern tip of Vancouver Island to spend some time in the wild with my thoughts. I start…
744. That is how many clicks I have had on my last post, She Died Doing What I Love, since July 14th. I have been blogging since January 6th of 2016 and I have published 185 posts in that time. None of them even come close to having that kind of response. The closest is…
I got home late last yesterday from a hike. Nothing special about that. Except this hike was with my sister Kristen, her sister-in-law Molly and my niece Meaghan and we were hiking on the trail to Sauk Mountain to look for the belongings of their mother-in-law and nana who fell to her death on July 11, 2017…
Jump to the recipe for Golden Milk or Turmeric Tea For The Trail… I am just getting back from my eight day Glacier Peak Wilderness work party with the Pacific Crest Trail Association and I’ll just say, it was about one day too long. 6 days of manual labor up and down those crazy switchbacks…
I started writing this post from the 16th story of a hotel in downtown Tacoma with a view of the Puget Sound peeking out beyond other tall buildings in the distance on Tuesday. I did some urban hiking to get there; riding for 3 hours on public transportation 62 miles from home to attend a training. A training…