Ho Ho Ho and Happy Holidays from the Hungry Mountaineer Hiking Guide! What is more delicious after a morning of snowshoeing than a Christmas cookie or two? Looking for the ver y best freshly baked cookies in Big Bear Lake? Look no further! This holiday season in 2023, this is the selection of cookies I …
As much as I love elk and venison, I can go for some vegan food and Bitchin Sauce recipes any day. I’ve always been one to think you just can’t have enough seafood. Besides venison and elk I could probably go the rest of my life without eating shore animal meat and be perfectly happy. …
Rising from my nice warm bed full of Norwegian Forest cats at four a.m. is not always my idea of a good time but sometimes work calls before dawn. Especially if you are Big Bear Lake, California’s premier hiking guide. You better believe if I spent all damn autumn day on the trail, I will …
Being a dog mom to dogs with social anxiety can be a challenge. It doesn’t matter how many yellow collars I buy our pup or patches saying do not pet, I attach to her harness. Strangers just can’t help shoving their mouths into her beautiful face and trying to kiss her on the snout. I …
I may have an obsession with fall. No, it’s not the pull of sugary sweet Pumpkin Spiced Lattes from Starbucks that lull me in on September first. It’s that magical orange light I can see blazing through the Black Oak trees in our national forest each morning starting in mid-September. I have to strap on …