If you don’t start your birthday by puking in public you are just not having a good time. Right? That may be what I told myself as I froze my ass off at the top of a fourteen-hundred-foot mountain yesterday. Maybe I was just trying to distract myself from the biting wind chill in my …
Month: August 2024
It’s summertime here in the mountains of southern California. As I spent these few months training to climb the tallest mountain in the continental United States, Mt Whitney, you had better believe that I spent a lot of time sweating. Most days the pup and I try to go for at least a five-mile run/hike. …
As much as we all love the call of the great outdoors, oh the joys of having indoor motorhome plumbing can lead to some odors. Spending your life hiking up mountains, mountain biking along alpine streams, cuddling with your smelly adventure dog can make for smelly campers by the evening back at camp. In between …
Summertime months are busy here in Big Bear Lake California for the Hungry Mountaineer. Run eight miles at six a.m! Hike ten miles with my clients as Big Bear Lake’s premier hiking guide! Drive Jeep tours to Bluff Lake (The most scenic spot in Big Bear Lake, tucked away four miles up a hidden dirt …
It was finally spring 2024 and the sun was shining, the birds were singing and my sourdough starter was fermenting nicely. Even though I was four loaves deep into my Knead for freshly baked sourdough bread something was missing from my life. Was it sourdough pizza? Perhaps! Or maybe it was something more physical then …