Urban Hiking

If you haven’t seen Gabe’s video with his mad editing skills, check out the Freejourners video here. He did a rapid fire great job sharing about some of our adventures over the last 4+ years. We are in a different chapter of life now. Sonya and I are so grateful for the adventures we went…

We Like and Need Rest

This has been a welcome Spring. Our snowboarding season full of training and competitions was long and intense, like for most of these awesome mountain snowboarding families up here in Summit County. We had some overlap between seasons where Gabe was competing at snowboarding nationals and in the middle of track season. Isaac has been…

Subtraction and Simplicity

We have been living our continual Freejourner ways in a different context up here in the mountains of Breckenridge. We wake up in the middle of the woods in a home that pierces with big views and sun rays. We are eagerly waiting for snow and getting on the slopes as a family snowboarding. The kids…

Breckenridge Weather is Crazy, But We Still Hike

We had a pretty crappy mountain day today. A cold front is coming through and hitting the whole area in Breckenridge with storms, and that’s never safe to summit with on the trail. But late in the evening after we took the kids out to jump tramps and practice their flips at Woodward Copper, we…

Start Selling Some of Your Stuff and Go for a Mini-Vacation

I liked that advice I read from Garrett Gee in his travel advice this morning. He exited on his Snapchat innovation and to date has not even tapped into these funds. Instead, he sold off all his possessions and he and his family travel the world light on the money they gained from selling off…

Change Things Up

I was finishing my work day in Breckenridge and having thoughts about how I work and what the Freejourner life looks like by constantly changing things up. I  think of experimenting as something continuous. I like to always be experimenting whether it’s with new ideas, locations, habits or ways of doing things. Heck, at a…

Red Rock Crossing, Sedona

You’ve probably seen the iconic image of Sedona –  Cathedral Rock set in the distance behind a beautiful flowing river. I was determined to find that spot during our stay in Sedona – especially since it had water, and we were melting in these +100 summer temps! It’s easy to get to once you know…

Alaska

How can we capture Alaska in words? The beauty really is magnificent, just as everyone says. It’s almost too surreal – as if living in a photo. We got to spend three weeks this last summer in Alaska, using Anchorage as a home base. Anchorage is just a normal mid-size, almost suburban-like American city. It’s…

St. George Bucket List

Every time we settle in to a new city, I begin asking people for their favorite things to do in the area. I love taking notes of responses and eventually compiling a Bucket List of places we’d like to visit and things we’d like to do. While I do some research ahead of time, I…