There is no better way to spend a fall day than on a hiking trail with a bag of beef jerky in your pack. It’s even a nicer day if you made the jerky at home in your air fryer with no added preservatives. Creating your own beef jerky masterpiece means you can control just …
Even before I moved to Big Bear Lake California eight years ago I would call myself a mountain woman. As a tried and true mountain woman, I spend my day’s trekking just as many miles of mountain trails as I possibly can. While out on the trails I’m constantly on the lookout for wild edible …
Last year at this time we were on holiday in the jungles of southern India. We had been vaccinated against Cholera and Yellow Fever. The thought of a global pandemic never would have crossed our minds as we sat on that hired bus rumbling through the sultry jungles. Our holiday shenanigans included beachside cocktails and …
Trying to plan a girl’s getaway for my dog and me proved to be harder than expected during a pandemic and also a disastrous fire season for the state of California. But the outdoor wanderer in me said, yes, I had to do it. This outdoor gal had wanderlust and revenge travel was calling her …
What on God’s green earth does an outdoor adventurer do when the outdoors are closed to the public? I’m the kind of wanderlust filled hiker who hikes every day, rain, sleet, snow, COVID, I just don’t stop. I mean unless unprecedented southern California wildfires close all the forests within three hundred miles. What the hell …