One Day Or Day One

Motivation Monday: I get to decide. This past weekend was one of those surreal, brings up some emotions kinda weekends. In a good way. You may remember me sharing a few weeks ago about a disappointing attempt to summit Round Top Mountain and that I got stuck in a spot...

Celebrate All Of The Things

Your Friendly Hise Hikers Tuesday Tip: Celebrate ALL of the things. Recently, we achieved a new personal record of “bagging” 4 peaks/ summits. Whoo hoo, right? On our way back down from the summit of the 4th mountain/ peak, we were celebrating our...

Faith Is The Bird

Think about it Thursday… lean into the whisperings on the wind… I’ve been working with someone in my team to bring a long-time vision of a project to fruition… and I’m soooooooooooooooooo beyond words excited! (Don’t worry...

Always Have a Goal

Your friendly Hise Hikers Tuesday Tip… Always have a goal. One of our friends we hike and backpack with regularly, shared recently that they are “working for their weekends” and I can’t tell you how much that resonated with me. Why? Because...

Heartfelt Passion

Motivation Monday… Share your passion! I absolutely love taking what I find to be interesting photos when we are out hiking and then sharing those with other people. When I share them, it helps solidify more deeply the experience I had as well as share the...

When The Heart Grieves

Wednesday Wisdom: Sometimes we need to allow our grief the space to do what it needs to do. I recently learned of a dear friend’s passing and while my heart is broken and life is less sparkly without them in it, I know that the love for my friend will never...

Do More Of What Makes You Feel Alive

Your Friendly Hise Hikers Tuesday Tip: Do more of what makes you feel alive. Jason and I have been in the throes of planning several of our upcoming hikes and backpacking trips this year and we love all of the aspects of planning the trip so much and, I think, it...

Living In Inhale Or Exhale

Think about it Thursday… Are you living in the inhale or the exhale? This morning in my workout, while focusing on my breath during a move, I thought to myself, “Am I living in the inhale… or in the exhale?” To me: Living in the inhale is...

A Reason, A Season Or A Lifetime

Wednesday Wisdom… Take a look around. Every so often, I take a moment to look at the people around me and take a mental inventory of people who are no longer in my circles, for whatever reason. Sometimes, I celebrate those chapters that have closed…...

Grow Through What You Go Through

Motivation Monday: Grow through it… From our recent camp set up in the meadow, while Jason and I were sitting in the meadow enjoying the sounds of nature all around us, we started discussing the different peaks we could see in front of us (in the pic below)....

Shine When It’s Your Time

Your Friendly Hise Hikers Tuesday tip…Shine when it’s your time. If you read my Motivation Monday post from yesterday, you’ll know that I recently had a bit of a rough weekend. Ugh, right? As I started having conversations with other hiker friends, I...

Honest Assessment

Motivation Monday: Sometimes you have to take a step back, reassess, regroup, and begin again. We recently attempted to summit a mountain called Round Top Peak. Its elevation is around 10,381 feet. We’ve summited taller mountains. It was more of a technical...

Passion Is Energy

Think about it Thursday… All this week on our training hikes, we have been observing the goats that have been brought in to help eat the shrubbery and brush to help reduce the fire danger. I was noticing the fervor and excitement some of the goats had for all...

Let Your Light Shine

Wednesday Wisdom: You know how they say you never know who you are inspiring? On our morning training hike today, I was thinking about how even though I may consider parts of me broken, I let my light shine through those broken parts to light the way for others and...

Lose Yourself In Nature

Your Friendly Hise Hikers Tuesday Tip… enjoy the moment. On a recent trek, we were fortunate that our hike paralleled the Tuolumne River and about 1/2 mile before the parking lot, we found a spot down to the river and were able to dip our feet in the cool water...
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