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I jammed my thumb down on the throttle. The engine roared and snow kicked up behind us. I grinned behind my helmet. Heck yeah, this was going to be fun! The powerful snowmobile propelled us through the thick drifts. We rocked, skidded, and slid through the powder. My heart was pounding with excitement. At a tight turn, I yanked the handles to turn the skids. The heavy vehicle lurched, then lifted up on one skid. We began to tip. I felt my body start sliding, unwillingly, off

In the iconic scene from the movie Frozen, Elsa stares boldly into the camera from the doorway of her freshly-constructed ice castle. She is fleeing from the trauma of her childhood to live out a life of happy isolation in the snow. “The cold doesn’t bother me anyway!” she sings jubilantly. In Wyoming, Tyler and I were also singing, “The cold doesn’t bother us anyway!” But unlike Elsa, we were singing with heated socks, heated gloves, and heavy overalls. Hey, not everyone c

Do you have a favorite place to be? Maybe it’s that coffee shop where they make your latte just right. Maybe it’s a book store or a...

A chorus of coyote song wavered across the prairie. Snowy mountain peaks glowed pink in the sunrise. Sage grouse puffed out their chests...

Usually YOLO (“you only live once”) is reserved as a declarative statement made right before somebody does something stupid. In the most...

Sometimes you have a day that’s challenging but unequivocally perfect. This was one of those days. It was messy at parts. Downright...

It was our first wedding anniversary. A year ago, we were off on a sunshiny desert honeymoon in the American Southwest. It couldn’t have...