mountain yurt : the day trip

each year blisters keep me from venturing out of the yurt again...but this year,
with my sister on her first yurt trip, i couldn't pass up the chance to ski around the mountain.
so i painfully slid my ski boots back on after much taping of my toes and heels,
and we headed out into fields of hoar frost. we stopped often to examine this pretty phenomenon.

it sure was nice to have another woman on the trip.
men and women travel differently in the backcountry--i've recognized this for years,
but have rarely had another woman with me who thinks and moves like i do.
grateful for an older and wiser sister to stick with me.

it was also really quite lovely to have my older brother there--
he flew all the way from the puget sound in the northwest to come on the yurt trip.
lucky me. it was bliss to be with ceej and my siblings who taught me how
to enjoy the great outdoors. as the little sister i always wanted to join them
on their outings, but was rarely able to because i was "too little."

i hope we get to have many more adventures together.

A WINTER'S NIGHT : MOUNTAIN YURT

:: annual yurt trip

:: ceej, older brother, older sister, + good friends

:: starry nights

:: warm fire and soup to eat

:: sister turned 40...so there was cake to celebrate

:: blisters on our feet

:: combing maps

:: tea drinking

:: story telling and knee slapping

:: wool sweater

:: cozy resting high in the mountains


...more to come

the yurt {part two} : staying warm with a blanket of clouds, down puffy coats, breakfast burritos, and bearded men

turns out that time flies when you have your nose burried in 18th century british literature...

sorry for the delay in posting the second round of our yurt trip. so without further a do, here they are!

i can't believe it's been almost two weeks. what a delicious trip this was. i'm still dreaming about it.

on our ski in there was a wonderful snow storm that dropped those beautiful big flakes on us.

it was nice to have the faster group at the yurt waiting for us with a fire. so so cozy.

i enjoyed spending such a lovely trip with some of my favorite people. so good for my heart.

i love that all of us women have all fallen in love with bearded men. i guess we have a type.

here's to many more winters of fantastic yurt trips!

the yurt {part one} : the night time adventures of a medical doctor, an engineer, a forest service ranger, a yogi/seven-months-with child, an EMT/Carpenter, an artist, a fashion designer, a physicist, a grad student, and a product designer

over the weekend we headed up to a yurt in our mountains with eight dear friends.

it's been a while since we've all had an over-nighter together, and a while since i've laughed so hard and so much!

the conversations went from environmental/political activism to questions {directed towards the scientists} about what would happen to a sandwich if you opened up a space shuttle window and left it in space to what's the weirdest thing our doctor friend has seen in the hospital to pregnancy and birthing.

and there was also a quick debate about what do to if you get bit by a rattlesnake...i like jack handy's suggestion best.

did i mention that our dear olivia made the 4.5 mile trek in on snowshoes while seven months pregnant?

she definitely wins the "hard core" award--especially since she had such a lovely glowing smile on the entire time.

there was also a couple of sweet games of speed scrabble. which resulted in more laughing.

so grateful to have friends who love to be in the mountains.

so grateful it finally snowed here after weeks of draught.

so grateful that i got to laugh my guts out.

so grateful that we have smart & talented friends who don't take themselves too seriously.

so grateful for high-calorie foods that filled my belly after our hike in on skis.

more of our trip {in the daylight} to come soon...

{p.s. thanks to holly jo for snapping a couple photos of me and ceej!}