In late August 2019, my family and I began our autumn European sojourn. Our first destination was Iceland. This was a much anticipated stop as Iceland is one of the best places we’ve ever been. Add in the chance to spend time with Thor, Freyja, Thoranna, and the rest of our dear Icelandic family, and well, this was a week we were very much looking forward to. Keep reading…
Sometimes the mountain just needs to be put in its place. This is my story of a very rainy trail run on the Island of Maui and just how much fun misery can be… Our first week was spent relaxing at a familiar spot on Kauai. Well, Katie and Odie got to relax. I ended up having way too much work to do and spent more time indoors than I would have liked, but hey, it’s tough to complain when working in a place like Kauai. Keep Reading…
Mary Beth and I visited friends who recently moved to Boise, and we enjoyed some camping in the Sawtooth region. Camping is hard to come by: the campsites all around Redfish Lake fill up quickly. When we came into the tiny town of Stanley on Wednesday, August 2, we thought there might be sites available, but we found ourselves camped on a high mountain road several miles northeast. One perk was that we had a nice little stream by our camp and we were comfortably above the haze from wildfires in Oregon. Read more…
At the end of January my Dad and I headed north to British Columbia for four days of heli skiing with CMH. We caught the tail end of a week-long cloudy pattern which yielded three days of great powder skiing below treeline and one day in the high alpine. All of it was new for me so I did my best to soak in every aspect of the experience. Heli skiing, though expensive and probably even a tad ridiculous, sure is a wild ride. Keep reading…