Washington

Except every year I try to go on a good snowshoeing adventure disaster has struck. One year our old van careened off the road, the next year we drove for hours to find mediocre snow and last year, well last year I didn't even try. This year Snow Lake was a success. Beautiful open views, maintaine...

I have lived in Florida my entire life. Don’t get me wrong it has its perks, if you enjoy theme parks, sand in places you can’t imagine, or skin cancer. Kidding; well not really.I got into photography about two years ago or so. I love it. Something that is subjective in how you see something is p...

I’m sitting in the backseat of a car on a 2.5 hour drive from Phuket to Krabi (Thailand) asking myself this question, while doing my yoga belly breathing to calm my nervous system of course. To be honest, I ask myself this question frequently. But always when I travel, and especially abroad. ...

Most people know that Seattle is one of the greatest cities in the world for outdoor enthusiasts (opinion). Yet while some may assume summer is ripe for adventure, spring and fall actually offer hikers, scramblers, and mountain runners the best conditions to explore Seattle’s local peaks (fact). ...

Seattle has many miles of paved trails throughout the city, but hitting the trails doesn’t just have to be for weekend pursuits. There are many opportunities for singletrack and these trails are all within 20 miles of downtown Seattle. So get up, get dirty, and get to work before your boss. These...

Located inside Mount Rainier National Park, the Pinnacle Peak trail offers epic views of Mount Rainier while you ascend to the saddle between Pinnacle Peak and Plummer Peak. When you reach the saddle the trail continues unmaintained in which you can go right to Plummer, or left to Pinnacle and be...

We went into this hike knowing it was 8 miles round trip and a portion of it being 1300 feet straight up in 1.3 miles. We expected the weather to be really snotty and rainy, but it was a lot better than we expected.  Typically, this would just be your normal hike, but for Em, HAHA NOOOOOOO. Eve...

Could you use a break from the work day? There's no better way to do so than by joining More Than Just Parks for a tour of Olympic National Park.

This was one of those times that if we knew what we were getting into we would have thought twice. I found a twelve and a half-mile loop in an area we'd been curious about between Kachess Lake and Lake Cle Elum. I made the loop by connecting Kachess Ridge Trail, Silver Creek Tie, Domerie Peak T...

The International Olympic Committee recently announced that surfing and climbing (along with skateboarding, baseball/softball, and karate) will be added to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.If you ask professional athletes, many of them will tell you the IOC made a mistake. They have concerns that ...

To start, I would like to share my gratitude for The Outbound Collective for giving me the opportunity to be part of their Writers Residency program in 2021.  Despite having my writing published by the collective I still find myself struggling with the imposter syndrome that comes from being a r...