Given that her second time on a snowboard led to a broken wrist, it’s a wonder Haley Kraus ever made it back to the mountains at all. “I sat in the ski patrol shack [in Big Sky, Montana] for two hours. People just walking by, because my mom didn’t have any cell phone...
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Rafting the Grand Canyon: A trip of a Lifetime
There is something so peaceful, but so high energy when you are living at the bottom of the largest canyon in the United States. For 16 days and boating over 220 miles, I found myself waking up to the sounds of rushing water echoing off the deep red canyon walls. The...
Start Your Hike by Saving a Life: Four Pass Loop
It was lucky we did, otherwise, Jameson might not be alive today. When I started planning my backpacking excursion in Colorado's West Maroon Bells mountains I never expected to become the main character of a stranger's best man's speech. But my two friends and I were...
Into the Mountains We Climb
I started snowboarding back in 1998. At eight years old I was gifted an electric orange, Oxygen Joker snowboard for Christmas. Little did I know as I hugged my first snowboard so ecstatically, it was going to pave out how I made all my major life decisions. From whom...
Powder Room Park Party: FIRST ANNUAL WOMEN’S CLINIC
History was made yesterday at Wachusett Mountain. I know, that might sound dramatic, but for the first time since I have been snowboarding (which has been since 2007), there was an event that was dedicated to ONLY women's snowboarding at the most well-known ski area...
Living For That Moment
Have you had it? When you have felt it you’ll know. It’s what motivates us to do these crazy and extreme things. The things that get our hearts pumping and lets the adrenaline flow. You know the things I’m talking about, the ones that make our mothers shake their...