Category: Snowboarding
How To Improve Mental Health in Ski Towns
From free education, to open communication, to access to therapists, to employee events, we’ve built a holistic community approach. Through sharing what I’ve learned, I hope others will implement ... Read More
Mountain Symphony
Until we meet again, palm to palm, for whoops and hollers, high fives and hugs, do as the mountain does, and feel the mountain symphony beat gently in your heart.... Read More
One of Those
Ah, the winter season is upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere. All the families with ski cabins are pulling out their gear and winter clothes, while the ski industry employees are getting tra... Read More
Fill the Kirkwood Valley with Love
A week from today, it will be one year since a particular wonderful man left this earth. His passing has touched the lives of thousands, reflected in the countless people showing love and support for ... Read More
Mountain Slushies
Sitting here, in the chair I got nearly three years ago from my first ever housemate in Tahoe, staring at my (what feels like) huge laptop screen, with the windows framing National Forest behind, I fe... Read More
Obsessed with this mountain
Attempting to put into words why I love Kirkwood is, in itself, a discredit to this place. Kirkwood is ineffable. However, after extensive research in the field (ahem, on the chairlift) I am confide... Read More![Not using your brain [Concussion Part 3 of 4]](https://i0.wp.com/dirtandtears.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_20170224_103821453_HDR.jpg?resize=542%2C340 "Not using your brain [Concussion Part 3 of 4]")
Not using your brain [Concussion Part 3 of 4]
In the span of two weeks, I experienced nearly constant pain, confusion, and frustration. I felt lost and the people I turned to for answers, did not seem to care much or have time to explain anything... Read More![What just happened? [Concussion Part 2 of 4]](https://i0.wp.com/dirtandtears.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_20170219_153243.jpg?resize=542%2C340 "What just happened? [Concussion Part 2 of 4]")
What just happened? [Concussion Part 2 of 4]
Amber and I were riding up the chairlift together. Chair 11, The Reut. This season, we had both taken a women’s clinic from the EK program, twice. “I feel like it’s given me this new found confi... Read More![Is that you? [Concussion Part 1 of 4]](https://i0.wp.com/dirtandtears.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_20170212_131205694.jpg?resize=542%2C340 "Is that you? [Concussion Part 1 of 4]")