—Alone in grizzly country Word spread around the hangar like wildfire. "You're going to camp up there?!" They'd ask me in disbelief. I'm unsure if the shock came from being a woman camping alone or a person camping alone in remote, grizzly territory. Probably both. It was the way their eyes bulged and then walked away shaking their heads. I could hear their thoughts. "She's crazy." Maybe I am. I thought I'd be scared when the helicopter pulled away and its echo died, leaving me in silence....

Life Lessons in Cross-Training For the last 6 months, I’ve been training for the Kusam Klimb—a 26km trail run up and over Mount H'Kusam with 1500m elevation. With 1.5kms of the trail being technical downhill terrain off the back of the mountain, followed by 5.5kms down loose logging roads, I’ve had to train moving quickly through unstable terrain. This is where my experience with mountain biking surfaced to support my training. I already have experience moving quickly down technical terrain...

Your daily movement practice isn’t just good for mobility, but actively improves your immune system. You have two types of immunity: general (your skin, mucous membranes, and fluid secretions like saliva and stomach acid) that prevents infiltration specific (T + B cells that recognize and attack specific infiltrators) The walls of your blood vessels are made up of epithelial cells that are electrically charged to repel the blood cells and proteins to the centre of the blood vessel, allowing...