Quick Overview of this newsletter: 🌷 March as a Transition Month ❄️ Winter’s Last Gasp: A Birthday in Banff 📋 Keeping My Banff Trip Organized: Trip Planning Template 🌸 Looking Ahead to Day and Weekend Trips 🚙 Product of the Month 🧐 Website Feedback Needed ☕️ Seasonal Treat Happy spring! Once back from my birthday trip, March always passes in a bit of a haze. It’s a big transition month from winter sports to wildflowers. Things are greening up, but not quite leafy. We’ve got daylight after...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Quick Overview of this newsletter: 🎿 Winter Sport Mix ❄️ 3 Reminders Planning Cold-Desination Winter Travel ☕️ How to Have a Cozy Cabin Getaway 🏷️ Product of the Month 🤨 Should I keep this on my site? 🍓 Seasonal Treat Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day, Yes, I’m still celebrating the holiday over here. I love celebrating Valentine’s Day with family and friends, not just romantically. It’s just so sweet! Next year, I think I’ll start celebrating in January, just to extend the love. One reason...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Quick Overview of this newsletter: ☺️ An honest reintroduction 💦 Travel Reminder: Book Campgrounds & Havasupai 🏕️ Tips for Planning a Backpacking Trip 🧥 Product of the Month 🍊Seasonal Treat Hi, I’m Hanna. You showed interest in my blog in the past and likely got my Welcome Series and then radio silence…. Maybe that didn’t bother you, but it’s been bothering me. Like when you say you’re going to do yoga more because you feel better after you do it, but you still haven’t touched your mat. With...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Quick Overview of this newsletter: 💗 I wrote for Well + Good! About XC Skiing! 💗 Caught on Social Media: XC Skiing at Hoodoo Cheers to love!🥂 Love of adventure Love of travel Love of the outdoors Love of pets and animals Love of food (hopefully not those same animals) Love of friends Love of family (that you get along with) And, of course, romantic love. Happy Valentine’s Day, here are two cutesy things I wanted to share. Cheers, Hanna 💕 I wrote for Well + Good! About XC Skiing! Yayyy!!! I...
about 2 years ago • 1 min read
Quick Overview of this newsletter: ❄️ Ice Storm Update 🎿 Christmas Gift To Myself - XC Ski Set!!!! ⛷️ Where I Learned to Ski - Breckenridge, Mammoth, & Shasta 🧤 Associated XC Ski Gear ✨ 2023 Re-cap Continued: Blog Posts with Longest Read Time “One thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of warnings.” - James Russell Lowell Hello from the other side of the great Oregon Ice Storm of 2024! What started out cute and fun turned out to be much more dangerous and overwhelming than anticipated. And...
over 2 years ago • 5 min read
Quick Overview of this newsletter: ✨ Hello 2024 🍁 Quebec Article was Published! 🥾 Top 10 Moderately Adventurous Blog Posts of 2023 Hello 2024 Happy New Year Reader! Has the onslaught of sales, products, and end-of-the-year emails slowed yet?? Is it safe in your inbox?? 🫣 As Thanksgiving approaches each year, I start to feel overwhelmed with putting my email newsletter out in the world. Especially anything related to products because it feels… money-grabby. Is that my imposter syndrome...
over 2 years ago • 3 min read
Quick overview of this newsletter: 👻 What’s more chilling: this suspenseful travel tale? Or AI writing it? 🏔️ Learning to snowshoe by feel on Mt. Hood, Oregon 🌌 Taking a clear kayak out on Lake Tahoe to go stargazing ✨ A colorful, immersive art installation in Paso Robles, California 🧥 Corduroy anything and everything Boo Reader! Typically, I like to send out my newsletters on Thursdays, but I couldn’t resist an “after dark” themed email newsletter. Mainly because it’s kind of rare that I do...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Quick Overview of this newsletter: 🇨🇦 Thoughts on the Quebec press trip 🍂 More Fall Foliage at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon 🧥 It’s Flannel Season 🧳 No Big Deal: Quoted in Well+Good article about packing carry-on luggage Bonjour Reader, Oui, Oui, I’m back from Canada! For a 7-day trip, it was jam-packed with activities and food -- I’m still full of cheeses and sweets because I had to try them all. I am currently reviewing my footage, and in contact with the editor I’ll be working on for the...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Quick overview of this newsletter: 🗺️ Where have you been loca?!! 🚐 AdventureWagon made a questionable choice, but I got to test their system 🛶 A cozy article by me: Historic Lodges of the Rogue River 🥰 What’s that silly amazing blanket you’re wearing? 💫 Rabbit hole: zodiac signs camping and hiking Hi, hi Reader, We’re still in the catch-up phase of our relationship, but I wanted to let you know that I didn’t stop traveling during my little sabbatical. I have a large backlog of posts to get...
over 2 years ago • 3 min read