2025 has been a year. I really don’t know what I did in life to deserve the shitstorm that 2025 has thrown at me. As I limped my way into 2025, a hiking guide with two busted up ankles, I thought, This too shall pass. Well, it’s now nine long chronic pain-filled months later, and …
If there is one thing my Mother does not appreciate, it’s my respect for Forty-Seven. But even Mama can appreciate a summer vacation road trip where Trump’s once inflatable head is riding shotgun! And she is always the most popular person in camp when she brings along a side dish of the best baked beans …
Leave the rosé at home, lace up those dusty trail runners (preferably not the neon ones from 2012), and prepare to traipse through the Inyo Wilderness for four soul-cleansing days of pure, unfiltered nature. That means sweating until you cry, sleeping on a rock that’s pretending to be a sleeping pad, and wondering why you …
Beets. Bees. Authentic Barbacoa. What do these three have in common? (Please don’t say Dwight from The Office) Here we are, summertime, 2025 and just maybe I am having a love affair with beets. I literally have beet salad for lunch basically every day. I just came back from an amazing hiking/ camping getaway with …
We all love camping, but for fucks sake let’s try to be intelligent campers! Did I really need to use a F-bomb in the first line of this blog? I did. Because Victor the resident Lake Mary black bear was uselessly killed last month. This whole incident could have been avoided if other campers could …