Is there actually a better way to spend your birthday week than cold plunging into a freezing Eastern Sierra lake after a brutal uphill hike? This past late August, I decided to “celebrate” turning forty-six years young and still adventurous—even if a few of my body parts have begun submitting formal complaints—by camping in the …
Here in the rural mountain town of Big Bear Lake, California, you would think our local bakeries could manage to stay out of controversy. You have one job, small-town bakeries: make me fatter so I feel morally obligated to hike ten miles tomorrow. Sell me a croissant. Hand me a cookie. Charge me nine dollars …