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I recently had the wonderful opportunity to appear on a segment with Q13 Fox news in Seattle sharing one of my favorite backpacking meal recipes : Chicken Pad Thai with Veggies! Making your own backpacking meals takes only a few minutes and is a much healthier and more cost effective option than purchasing a pre-made meal at the store. By opting for freeze-dried or dehydrated options, the meal is super light and easy to carry on the trail - simply add boiling water and allow it rehydrate...

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." -Steve Jobs I’m writing the foreward to my book, before my book even exists. A few nights ago, lying in bed, a simple message popped into my head, “Write the foreword” was all that it said. I woke up, turned on the light on my nightstand,...

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” - Rumi   One year ago today, I almost lost everything. My mom and my husband and I were driving home from the most incredibly wonderful day of snowshoeing, when our truck hit a patch of black ice and went spinning across the highway - directly into the path of an oncoming semi-truck. To this day, I cannot explain why I am still here. There is no feasible explanation for how we did not get struck...