Here it is a gorgeous spring day in southern California and I would love to be relaxing on a beach or hiking atop a mountain in the eastern Sierras. But I’m not, because I am being Safe At Home, as a responsible Californian. I mean someone has to, right? It seems like some people just …
In these days of COVID-19 fears, every girl needs a girlfriend to keep the positivity going and keep them motivated that the end is in sight. Whether that means the end of self-quarantine or the end of an endless trek up a mountain peak. Whenever I go for a hike with Donna the joke is …
Springtime used to mean Painted Lady Butterflies migrating through our alpine town. Last year springtime was baby donkeys grazing on the spring grass, wild lavender belly flowers on the Pacific Crest Trail and beavertail prickly pear cactus ripe with purple tart fruit. You knew it was officially springtime in Big Bear Lake, California when you …
Earlier in the week I had to take a break from gluten-free baking and roasting jalapenos to put on a fashion show for the kitty cats. Yes, this might just be day fifty of quarantine and have I lost it? Have I been locked inside our home mostly and our remote mountain community away from …
I don’t usually add pork rinds to a healthy salmon recipe but I don’t usually hike two thousand feet up to the top of a mountain with ten-foot snowdrifts without snowshoes either. So I guess there is a first time for everything. As in hiking until your cankles bleed because you decided to hike to …