Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
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Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
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Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
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Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
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Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
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Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
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Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
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LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
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Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More
Uber Stories: 10,000 rides: “Reality vs escape”
From driving through a postcard to living in a movie, you never know quite where you’ll end up ubering in Vermont.
Watch: Saving my house from evil trees!
Watch what happens when you hire the best tree crew in Rutland to take down 7 trees that are menacing your property! Relive all three days in just nine minutes.
Hipster Couponing: West Leb Clearance Spree
Your favorite hipster couponer is back! However, no coupons required to score these deals… this was a good old fashioned clearance-rack shopping spree in the tax-free utopia of West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Uber Stories: The Boondocks: 10,000 Rides
Staying positive can be a challenge in today’s crazy world. Add in the recent celestial events (a total solar eclipse) and the impending end of summer, and it truly feels like things are spinning out of control at a million mph. But when I pick up a new passenger, it doesn’t matter what sort of insanity is going on in my own head or the world at large, I am immediately distracted by whatever is going on in their life. I call it uber therapy.
Uber Stories: Intangible Assets: 10,000 Rides
Nick got me there. To Middlebury, that is. He’d requested a ride at 7:45 a.m. from Sheep Farm Road — every bit as quaint as it sounds — to the Rutland Airport on Saturday morning, Aug. 7. $46. Which even without tip mathed out to about $25 an hour — My minimum benchmark for accepting a ride. I figured I could give that one ride first thing, then head home. Then I could choose if I’d head south to the Ludlow skatepark contest or north to Warren for the annual jam. I was honestly torn. I knew both would be fun. I hadn’t been to Ludlow since they rebuilt it,…
Read More
Uber Stories: Classified Rides: 10,000 Rides
Some days it seems like the universe is trying out a theme on me and my Uber rides and yesterday the motif du jour was the military. I started my day at Middlebury College, where I picked up Samuel for a ride to the Burlington airport. From the pick up locale, I assumed he was part of the language immersion program, so I used that knowledge to break the ice and soon learned he was from Ireland and here to study French. But as our ride progressed, his Irish accent subsided into a Maryland one and I’d learned he was an ex pat, who married an Irish guy and was…
Read More
Legendary Snowmaker Greg Hiltz Retires After 45 Years
Not many people can say they’ve covered New York’s Central Park with snow, but Greg Hiltz can. A select few people can say they’ve pulled off making enough snow for a World Cup course in one night, and they’d probably have to thank Hiltz for it. In his 45-year career making snow at Killington Resort, he created, innovated, and made so many laugh, but on March 21, 2023, Hiltz took out his channel locks and turned off his final snow gun at The Beast. “That’s true, I’m done. Love the mountain, love the people, love the job, but I’ve done my time,” Greg says with the authority he’s become so…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 1 – Portland To Mammoth
Originally Published on Yobeat | December 19, 2017 Mammoth Opening Weekend is always a good time. Even though Mother Nature didn’t decide to drop her bounty until AFTER we took our two runs and were happily back in Portland, my husband Aaron and I got a lot more out of our round trip from Portland to Cali than sore muscles, hangovers and high fives with friends. In fact, when we showed up to Mammoth Mountain Inn on Thursday November 9th, we were not only not married, but we were barely speaking. But I’m getting ahead of myself so let’s start at the beginning. PART 1- Portland to Klamath Falls Departure: 6 am,…
Read More
Living the Dream Trip – Chapter 2 – The $1500 Wedding and Honeymoon
Originally Published on Yobeat | Dec 20, 2017 IF YOU MISSED CHAPTER 1 READ THIS FIRST. PART 4- Touristing Hard Aaron’s second time skateboarding, ever. November 11, 2017. 8 AM PST. After our one-run debacle the day before, Aaron and I were on team “let’s go get breakfast, hit the skatepark again and then see some pretty shit instead of snowboard today.” We figured Fancy, Keith and Madison would create better snowboard content anyway, so we loaded up the Highlander once again and hit Mammoth Lakes just in time for The Goodlife Cafe to open. Our server – who I’d guess just switched from summer construction mode to waiting tables…
Read More
LIVING VANCARIOUSLY WITH ROBBIE SELL: PART 3
I was pretty much convinced Robbie Sell was going to kill me. Not because I am super annoying (I can be) but because after he picked me up at the Albuquerque airport, I realized what I had just gotten myself into. A three-day camping trip in the Southwest, going on treacherous adventures in the middle of nowhere, with only my own wits and a scrawny ex-pro snowboarder with bad knees to protect me. Things could definitely go poorly. Robbie, incase you haven’t been following along for the past couple days, has been around the ‘ol snowboard industry for a minute. First as a pro rider in the Neoproto era, and then a photographer and most recently the Arnette…
Read More