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The Trips I Didn’t Take

I am subscribed to a dangerous email list. It’s called YVR Deals, and it sends out an email whenever a really cheap flight deal is happening out of…

Anxiety and Your Trip to Cuba: A 5 Step Guide

  This November, I was finally able to make it to Cuba – a place that, during the Obama era, I wanted to visit before it became overrun…

So I’ve Been Tired Lately

  This August I stopped hiking. I also stopped climbing, running, writing and pretty much anything else that wasn’t sleeping and eating. It’s a strange thing that happens…

7 Ways To Make Everyone Hate You On Your Next Outdoor Adventure

The outdoors are for everyone. I truly believe this, even as I am bullied out of the parking lots of my favourite places by the beer-bellied owners of…

A Hike is Just a Hike

If you’re like me (that is, if you’re nearly anyone who lives in a northern climate or a perpetually rainy one, or if you’re a teacher), you dragged…

Thoughts on Getting Older and Failing the Wildfire Fighter Fitness Test

When I was younger, I used to prioritize my life plans based on what I could only do while I was still young. Write a book? That could…

Trail Food Review: Nomad Nutrition

If there’s one thing I like as much as mountains, it’s eating. I eat when I’m happy, I eat when I’m sad. I eat when I’m carsick or…

On Love and Wild Places

It was Valentine’s Day this week. Which is great. People taking the time out to tell the person they love that they love them is great. But does…

Rewild Your Resolutions: Backcountry Skills to Build in 2017

It’s a new year, and as we collectively bid good riddance to the last one, some of us have begun to imagine all the ways in which this…

The Long Dark And All Its Tiny Antidotes

It’s been 6 months since my last post. Forgive me. I have spent the past 8 months trying on a new look: the overworked city girl. I developed a…