I often run off to play in the mountains with an amazing group of women. They’re all accomplished, funny, supportive, badass ladies who enjoy running through sand, mud, and snow to reach scenic vistas that inspire and invigorate our souls. These excursions can be as short as an hour, or as long as a few…
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5 Strategies to Keep Wanderlust (and Instagram) from Ruining Your Life
Read moreDo you ever have that moment when you compare your own seemingly mundane existence to the perfect photos on Instagram, and ask yourself what the hell you’re doing with your life? Me too. It’s hard to remember those photos are often staged and edited, and not a true representation of what actually happened. How can we…
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Aspire Adventure Running: North Cascades Trail Running Festival and Symposium
Read moreDelicious blueberries. Enjoyable company. Foggy trails. Fascinating speakers. That was my fantastic weekend in the North Cascades with Aspire Adventure Running! I attended their North Cascades Trail Running Festival and Symposium, which is a celebration of fall with like-minded trail enthusiasts. The event description states “we hope that these few days spent together will deepen…
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Fremont Lookout: A Sunset Hike
Read moreLast week’s sunset hike was all about exploring a new place at a new time of day (I’m typically an avid early morning hiker/runner.) This week’s sunset hike was about experiencing a place I know well at a dramatically different time of day. Fremont Lookout is ~5.5 miles with about 800 feet of elevation gain. It’s one…
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Chain Lakes Trail: A Sunset Hike
Read moreSo far this season I’ve been lucky enough to hike trails near Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier, two of Washington’s most well-known and prominent snow-capped volcanoes. However, I hadn’t yet ventured up to the North Cascades. But the mountains, erm, the volcanoes, were calling, and I had to go. I made plans with a…
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Spirit of the Trail #2: Harry’s Ridge Trail & Kilchoman Machir Bay
Read moreI really enjoyed sharing the first Spirit of the Trail whisky and trail pairing, and am thrilled to present the second in the series! As a little refresher, in this series, I will pair a trail experience (hike/run/race) with a whisky. It might be based on the trail itself or a specific situation that occurred…
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Whiskey + Yoga at Westland Distillery
Read moreBack in May, I attended my first Whiskey + Yoga event (put on by Just Add Yoga), and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. As a brief refresher, their concept is simple and awesome – an hour of yoga followed by a tasting of beer/cider/wine/spirits from the business where the class took place. I was very excited to see…
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Harry’s Ridge Trail: Solitude and Wildflowers at Mount St. Helens
Read moreI recently had an extra day off during the week and decided to put it to good use with a mini solo adventure to a new (to me) place. As I’m still recovering from a mysterious yet persistent knee injury, I couldn’t do massive miles out on the trails….so I chose to visit Mount St.…
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Spirit of the Trail #1: Chuckanut 50K and Westland American Oak
Read moreWill Run for Whisky has been in existence for three years now, but I hadn’t yet figured out a way to connect whisky and trail running into my blog posts. In case you’re wondering, I don’t actually run with a hydration pack filled with whisky. I just want to sometimes. 😉 My goal with this…
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Whiskey + Yoga at 3 Howls Distillery
Read moreMy original plan for the weekend involved trail running with friends (okay, that’s my plan every weekend.) However, earlier in the week I began to get a new pain around my knee/IT band which took running off the table for a few days. It was disappointing, but I quickly devised a new plan with attending…
