Living in a true winter this year has made me realize how much I really do dislike the cold... It was snowy, with daytime temperatures well below freezing for almost a month straight. I struggled with short days, very little sunshine and it simply being too cold to go play outdoors. This made me realize how much I love and how much my general happiness depends on being outside in nature. However, the positive aspect of this was that it really forced me to focus on training and spend time climbing at the gym, which I know is...

The summer months in Utah are in full swing, and there is one common factor that make each day beyond exciting, PARACHUTES. Yes, the west has been in a serious drought, with minimal rain gracing the skies...but it is allowing us to take the skies over with our skydiving and BASE jumping antics. Within the past few weeks, the days have been jam-packed full of excitement; from 3am wake-up calls to jump out of hot-air balloons while camera crews circle in helicopters, to BASE jumps off one of our many local Utah objects, to wingsuit skydives with friends.Five...