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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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