I love surrounding myself with friends and family who love food the way I love food. These are my people—the ones who respond to my IG DMs at 6 a.m. with, “Yes, send the recipe,” instead of, “Why are you awake?” As the self-appointed Summit Snacker of the San Bernardino Mountains, it is my sacred …
What can you do this snow season of 2025, when Big Bear Lake Skips Winter: A Local’s Guide to December Without Snow? Yes, there are still so many Big Bear Lake winter activities without snow. Or: When Skiing in a Bikini Is Technically Possible but Emotionally Unacceptable. What do you do in Big Bear Lake …
Anyone who uses the term “I’m bored” does not have cats. I have friends who complain about boredom. I have never been bored a day in my life. I can’t even fathom what boredom might look like in a day filled with work, cleaning the house, trying to find me time on the high elevation …
It’s officially the holiday season—not because the calendar says so, but because I found myself shivering in a thirty-degree supermarket that smelled faintly like a Hong Kong night market, soaking wet in what I’m pretty sure was fish soup. Meanwhile, every shopper around me looked dressed for an Olympic-level sledding adventure in Big Bear Lake, …
Why yes, I may be sipping on a Christmas cocktail and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. Go ahead and judge me. If the weather outside is “Frightful,” then I’m feeling delightful as I snowshoe through an early December forest through a foot of fresh snow. And even more delightful is this easy Christmas cocktail recipe. …