I’m walking through a snowy empty forest. The pines are covered in fresh snow. My little doggy has been whimpering ever since we started off roading up this mud and snow in rusted dirt road. She is so super excited for a morning gallivant through the fresh snow fall. She just can’t control emotions on …
I feel like my heart is breaking this morning for the little mountain community of Idyllwild. I have been cursing, coughing and hating the thick blanket of smoke that hangs over my own mountain town for two days now. My little rural mountain town sits one mountain range and about forty miles away from …
I was sure I was going to get kicked out of the forest today. It was Sunday, and I felt like being a rebel. I also felt like running…. Far. In less than a week I was going to be hiking Mt San Gorgonio, the highest peak in our mountain range, with a group …
There is a dirt road that I like to run down in the winter months. It hugs the cliffs and muddy edges of the National Forest. Hawks fly through the treetops and deer scamper about in the Manzanita bushes. I rarely see these creatures, all I see for the most part is the …