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2 Steps Toward Living an Adventurous Life with Your Wife
By the time my husband and I wed, we’d (separately) stockpiled a slew of adventurous experiences. Jaime grew up on water. When it was frozen,…
When We’re Looking for Progress
Cool mountain air drifted through the cracked-open window, bringing sleep-disturbing beeps and rumbles with it. Awake in our tiny room in the back of the…
Tools in the Ruck: The Weight
Carrying a plate I carry a literal steel plate around everywhere I go. Anyone can tell you about my weird habit of carrying my gym…
Doing Life with People: 3 Signs from the Slopes
It’s at the bottom of the slopes that it feels most risky. It’s not the terrain or even the conditions. It’s the people. Up top,…
Tools in the Ruck: Salt, light, and living water (Part 1)
“Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your…
Having Adventures or Living an Adventurous Life?
Waking to the sound of water pelting the window and a gloomy sky that looked to be parked for the day, I heaved a dissatisfied…
1 Way to Stay on Course
My husband and I stood at the end of the discernible trail—looking first at each other and then at the forest floor. A ways back,…
Essential provisions: Tools in the ruck Part 4
Continuing our series of the different tools I carry in my rucks, today we focus on winter adventures with the family! Check out Parts 1-3…
Tools in the Ruck Part 3: The best all-weather notebook
Why write in a notebook? The journey to a life well-lived is not easy. It isn’t cheap. It costs us blood, sweat, tears, and miles…
Refill the Reservoir: the 3 Rs
Wriggling deeper into my sleeping bag, I looked out the side window of our Sequoia. Backlit by the full moon, silhouettes of surrounding lodgepole pines…
Tools in my ruck: Part 2 – art
Art? Wait a minute, I thought you were an adventurer, not an artist. Well friends, I think you’ll find they are one in the same….
Blood & Tears: What Our Young Adventurers Need
When we head west, we sometimes land at a cabin in Custer National Forest. It’s far enough from the civilized world that our devices connect…
Tools in my Ruck: Part 1 – The Ruck
Back from the Oregon Trail As we transition to fall, I’m settling into a new routine in Oregon. We made it through the trek out…
Our Seasons Are Not Silos
Here in the midwest, even diehard summer fans eventually come to anticipate the cool days and colorful foliage that come with the changing of the…
What can we learn from adventures?
Our team is looking forward to taking some time for rest, recovery, and adventure so I have one more post before we sign off for…
The Gift of Reflection and Adventure
To share adventures with your family, with your kids, with your spouse, is quite a gift. Adventures allow you to grow. They allow you to…
For the Dads: What Comes Around
“My goodness, Natalie. You come from adventurous stock.” Really? Turning away from the email, I looked through the window to the trees beyond. I’d never…
Autopilot, Attention & Adventure
Pivoting at the switchback, I wondered just exactly why I’d thought the thigh-burning Hellroaring Trail was a good idea. Sure, the descent had been smooth…
Out of gas – planning for adventures
How do you plan for fighting Mike Tyson? Prepare to get punched in the face repeatedly. A wise mentor once told me this, and it…
Training for Adventure
Sir Winston Churchill said, “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the…
Different Assets, 1 Team
From the glacial boulder that marked the trailhead, our path wove between lodgepole pines and along the canyon’s rocky rim. Twelve hundred feet below, the…
Types of adventure
What is adventure, anyway? We all have a bit of a different way of defining adventure. My definition came from a chat with my good…
1 Component of Adventure
Over growing rollers, Jaime and I made our slow way along the Leigh Lake shoreline toward the distant launch. Checking the buckles on my life…
Size Matters Not: The Story of Boiler Ruck
Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you? Yoda I started our local GORUCK Ruck Club because I was tired of being the…
How’s Your Home Team?
‘It’s easier if you walk along the edge,” my husband, Jaime, said. We were covering unfamiliar terrain. I knew how to hike the packed dirt…
A liturgy for rucking
I live trapped and heavy As I pick up my burden for this long trial I am reminded that a fool’s provocation Is heavier than…
Black Belt attitude: adventures in taekwondo
I will live with perseverance, in the spirit of taekwondo. Having honor with others, integrity within myself, and self control of my actions. – American…
What Do You Need for Your Next Adventure?
“Are you sure you’re okay?” Jaime asked, hesitating. We’d been pushing it all week: driving from Iowa to Wyoming on the fringes of a several-state-spanning…
You can’t achieve it alone
This is the part of the year where I’m supposed to tell you things like “you just have to put your mind to it, and…
A Parent’s Nightmare: 11-Year-Old Lost in the Woods
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Are You Looking for More?
Twenty hours of cross-country driving delivered my family to the foothills of the Wasatch Range of the Utah Rockies. We were there to ski, excited…
Suffering, cats and hope in Advent
As I write this, our cat Blackie is doing what cats do when anyone is trying to concentrate on writing, and sticking his tail right…
Danger in the Dark: Cultivating the Senses for Adventure
The moon watched from above in the night’s darkness. I fingered the cold rough rock face until my fingers found enough traction to pull me…
Adventure and the Challenge of Your Daily Grind
“Are you sure we have time for this?” my husband, glancing toward the sky. Twilight was settling fast. Darkness wouldn’t be far behind. To be…
50 Mile Star Course: Pavement, Pain, and Perseverance
With 7 miles to go in our 50 hour endurance suck fest, I collapsed under a tree from exhaustion. Dripping with sweat, carrying my 35…
November Adventure Challenge: Take a Night Hike
This month’s adventure challenge is to take a night hike. November, with its early sunsets and temperate weather, is an ideal time to be able to get out on the trail in the dark. Here are a few tips for a successful night hike:
COLD AND UNCERTAIN
On August 11th, 2021 we set out on a family hike down the Daniel Ridge Falls trail in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina….
Choose an Adventurous Life
Two Octobers ago, I paused on the bank of the Gardner River and wondered just exactly why I would choose to be standing there in…
3 Ways to Have Peace in the Adventurous Storms of Life
Who thinks of peace in the middle of a storm? I bet you wouldn’t think of the word “peace” when thinking of the word “storm”….
October Adventure Challenge: Draw each day for Inktober
Remember the feeling when you were in kindergarten and your teacher handed you some crayons for the first time and invited you to draw whatever…
How to Get Your Kids to Love Adventure
If you have kids and want to instill the adventure spirit in them, then frequency, access, and awareness are king. That means for most of…
Autopilot: 1 Way to Miss Your Adventure
An adventurous life is lived one challenge at a time. Some we choose. Others we face. How we walk through is up to us. Autopilot is a choice. And a risk.
Self regulation as a key to success – September Adventure Challenge
We wall want a life that’s successful, one where today is awesome, and tomorrow will be too! Full of adventure, joy, and connection with those…
Depleted and Destroyed
Let me share an adventure that involved an Ironman triathlete, my dad, and 2 post collegiate runners, Jorge and myself. We saw a mountain we…
Pace, Reflection, and Travel
Between the morning’s family-friendly hike around Trout Lake and the afternoon’s challenge trek to Sepulchre’s summit, we traveled through Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley. We knew this…
3 Reasons the Holy Spirit is Essential
Who is the ONE person you absolutely cannot live without? There are two responses to this question. Either you’re going to answer it or you’re…
August Adventure Challenge: Becoming More Loving to Somebody in Particular
August Adventure Challenge: Loving Others I have a bit of a confession to make. I am not always a very loving person, even to those…
Understanding and embracing adventure as a tool and mindset
We found ourselves on the mountain summit in Colorado. The high altitude and long hike/run intervals climbing had depleted our water and nutrition. We underestimated…
Why We Keep Going
My husband and I set off into the woods at a brisker than usual clip. Sooner than I hoped, the trail made good on its…
Adventure is Essential
Complacency is the enemy of mankind. We were meant to be adventurers, conquering the unknown! What happens when we stop progressing? Have you become dissatisfied…
Liturgy for thunderstorms
In the midst of the tempest, I cry to you O Lord of the wind and waves. Bring peace to my troubled soul. Bring safety…
July Adventure Challenge
Here’s your adventure challenge for July: find the highest point of elevation near you and sit and reflect for 30 min. What do you notice?…
D-Day: Love, Adventure, and Sacrifice
Today marks the 77th anniversary of one of the most momentous days in the history of the modern world, the invasion of Normandy by the…
What is the Anthem of the Adventurer?
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