Susans Evolution

Its time for a highlights edition blog post. Not only a good way to sum up 4 months of no updates, the highlights edition blog post also brings together events and activities in a math problem sort of way.Add up fulfilling experiences and subtract out hardships. Let's see what comes out.+ Move to

Looking down at your jacket, after paddling through miles and miles of rapids, and seeing small beads of water brings a smile across my face every time.Gear drying after a run down the Urubamba, PeruThe quality of my specialized equipment and technical clothing directly corresponds with how many day

As a Lole Blog contributor, I get share all the juicy activities and inspiring thoughts that an active and adventurous lifestyle affords.While biking through Portland's unique neighborhoods and along the Willamette River downtown, the fresh air and crowded bike lanes inspired me to share the culture

There are individuals who would enter a pool in no other way than to dive, head first and with conviction. Some with knowledge of depth and others with a keen intuition and trust in skill and judgement.Either way, these individuals do not waste time. They do not care about temperature or slimy, aq

The rain spit at my face at 5:30 am this morning. I could hear my bike wheels draw up the water and hit my fender, as my movement broke the stillness of such an early hour.A glowing flower from Costa Rica. If a flower can glow...I can too.Whether part of a resolution wave or just simple interest, I

This time of renewal flashes into our lives every January.Couch potatoes spotted purchasing yoga mats. Recycle bins more packed than the garbage. Junkies putting down the crack. Wait, I don't know what junkies do. It's all a package deal with the strike of midnight on New Years. We are given th

Wild & Scenic Waterfall: Big Brother on the White Salmon River, WAI said it to my kayak instruction students and rafting clients countless times this summer."Oh yea, the White Salmon is a Wild & Scenic River" (confidently nodding as if it was so obvious what this means that I wouldn't even bother el

New city, new home, now I need a new goal. A goal that feels as foreign as living in a city does for a mountain girl.Blissfully cramp-free running on a trail in Forest Park after work today, I decided to give more purpose to each footstep. I'm not one for tallying up the miles in my running shoes.

If you thought Class V was hard, think again. The bar has been raised.First, try fully exhausting yourself by biking through grueling terrain, up steep and narrow trails or over mountains on back country roads. Next, change your shoes and run through the woods like a Yankee in Deliverance for mil