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Behind the Scenes of Campfire Cookery
WAM media reviewer Tara Kusumoto fell in love with the pure pleasure and practical recipes in Campfire Cookery: Adventuresome Recipes and Other Curiosities for the Great Outdoors. She talked with authors Sarah Huck and Jaimee Young about their favorite camp ingredients and traditions for flavorful camp cooking and life experience. They share tales of open-fire recipe testing gone wrong, reveal their camp traditions, and even describe their variation on the game of charades.
No Pink
Every time I put my 6-month-old in the car seat as we’re getting ready to leave the house, I tell her we’re going on an adventure. I have a feeling I’ve whet my little girl’s appetite for more.
Where in the World Is Rita?
Author Rita Gelman will speak in Frisco, Colorado on Nov. 27th. Will her encouragement and advice be enough to motivate you to take on the role of nomad? Her books have had that effect on others…
Winter Reads
Tara Kusumoto recommends these three great books: River House: A Memoir, Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail, and
Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition .
Paralympian Alana Nichols: A Golden Mono Skiing Debut
Off the mountain, Paralympian Alana Nichols has a magnetism that draws people in. On the race course, she’s a force to reckon with.
Paralympic Skier Danelle Umstead
First time Paralympian and visually impaired ski racer Danelle Umstead tests her “acquired adrenaline” in Whistler, B.C.
Let the Paralympic Games Begin
The Olympics have wrapped up, but the Games are far from over in Vancouver and Whistler. This Saturday, March 13, the Winter Paralympic Games begin, with more than 600 athletes from 40 countries competing for gold.
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
In the late 1960s and 70s, the male-dominated climbing establishment shunned Arlene Blum.
Books with a Cause
As we come to the end of what’s been a challenging economic year, it’s worth taking a moment to shed the financial stress and dig down into what really makes us tick.
