Married To Adventure

28/11/2019

Exciting news for wolf lovers in the Leavenworth area

A Family Wolf Encounter by Glade Brosi Every weekend possible my family heads out into the wild for an adventure. This past weekend, the middle of November, we

06/10/2019

As a follow up to our cougar sighting last month, I wrote a piece in The Seattle Times that prints today

Mountain lions are majestic and a little terrifying, and they’re around us — whether we see them or not.

01/08/2019

Hello animal lovers! We’ve been seeing so much activity on our game cameras that we’ve decided to use this blog to post monthly (or at least a quarterly) critter cam highlights. If you’re staying a…

12/04/2018

Here's a roundup of the cool animals we've been seeing around Osprey Acres lately. Our critter cam has been worth every penny!
http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2018/04/12/animals-abound-on-the-creature-cam/

It’s like someone turned on a faucet. In the span of about two weeks our mountain surroundings went from dreary snow to spring. And with the change, the animals began to emerge. Our creatur…

15/03/2018

See highlights from Married To Adventure's recent Utah trip in this Sunday's Seattle Times.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/road-trip-to-red-rock-country/

A reunion with Southern Utah reveals bigger crowds than ever, but you can still find pockets of solitude among the fabulous geology.

29/01/2018

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2018/01/29/back-country-first-tracks-maybe-ever/

There’s a pretty good chance that I’m the first person to ever ski this little shoot in the Wenatchee National Forest. In any case, I’m claiming the naming rights. Henceforth, this run will be know…

11/01/2018

I hadn't done winter at the Leavenworth Ski Hill since I learned how to ski back in elementary school. But it's a treasure trove of outdoor fun this time of year. Here's a piece I just wrote for The Seattle Times.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/beyond-little-bavaria-leavenworths-ski-hill-is-epicenter-of-snow-fun/

What started with a giant ski jump has grown to offer skiing, snowshoeing, tubing, fat biking and more family fun.

30/12/2017

Happy (Snowy) Holidays!

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/12/29/homestead-life-for-the-holidays/

Just in time for the holiday season, we finished our house! Ok to be fair, we will never be truly finished. The big items are checked off and we’ve passed all of our inspections. But everyw…

09/12/2017

Osprey Acres gets more ink in The Seattle Times this week - this time showing off images from our creature cam.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/gift-idea-get-a-close-up-look-at-wildlife-with-a-critter-cam/

Whether you’re camping or have a cabin, a wildlife camera can help you get a look at creatures that visit while nobody’s looking.

18/10/2017

Looking for a great place to scare yourself this Halloween season? The underground bunkers at these three forts are just about the creepiest places I can imagine.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/triangle-of-fire-three-creepy-old-forts-worth-the-scare/

Halloween season is a ripe time to explore the dank, dark and spooky passages of deserted batteries that once guarded the entrance to Puget Sound.

08/10/2017

Don't be fooled - it's not the Grand Canyon. But it might be cooler.

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/10/07/five-favorites-canyonlands-np/

If you’d never been to the Grand Canyon, and you accidentally turned up at Canyonlands National Park by mistake, you’d probably think you just saw the real deal. In many ways, what you …

06/10/2017

Today's 5 favorites comes to you from Arches NP. It's one of the favorites on the National Park trail, and for good reason.

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/10/06/five-favorites-arches/

If the National Park system has a poster child, it might be Arches NP. With it’s dense concentration of natural stone arches, it’s so cool and unusual that it’s hard not to feel g…

05/10/2017

Here are today's 5 favorites from Capitol Reef NP. With so many beautiful places in Utah, it's frequently (but foolishly) overlooked.

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/10/05/five-favorites-capitol-reef/

It feels like pretty much all of southern Utah is (or should be) a National Park. So much of the landscape features unreal canyons, rock formations and undeveloped space, that Capitol Reef Nation…

04/10/2017

Today's 5 favorites comes to you from the longest slot canyon in the world.

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/10/04/five-favorites-buckskin-slot-canyon/

This week we are posting five of our favorite photos from our recent road trip through southern Utah. Today comes to you from one of Jeff’s childhood favorites: The Buckskin Gulch. Slot cany…

03/10/2017

Each day this week we are posting 5 good photos from the major stops on our Utah trip. Today's location: Bryce National Park.

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/10/03/5-favorites-bryce/

Each day this week we are posting 5 photos from each major stop on our recent trip to Utah. Bryce National Park (and nearby Kodachrome Basin State Park) is a photographer’s dream. Wit…

02/10/2017

Each day this week we are posting our 5 favorite photos from each destination on our recent trip to Utah. Enjoy!

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/10/02/five-favorites-zion/

OK here’s a sneak peak into the life of a travel writer. Jeff recently cobbled together a couple of writing jobs showcasing the Southwest US. The first thing you need to know about travel wr…

21/09/2017

Our kiddo takes another ride on the pages of The Seattle Times

http://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/bikepacking-is-a-treat-when-toddler-gets-too-heavy-for-your-back/

If you want to get away from it all overnight, seek out riverside roads that are closed to cars but open to bikes, and get yourself a sturdy bike and trailer.

13/09/2017

Here are some photos from this weekend's BikePacking trip

28/06/2017

Here's a story that ran on Zillow today about our family's barn turned to hardwood floors

https://www.zillow.com/blog/salvaging-a-family-barn-215734/

Great-grandparents milked cows here. A father and daughter both played in the hayloft as kids. Now a new generation runs barefoot on its wood.

16/06/2017

Another family outing documented in the Seattle Times Travel section. The photo in the lave tube taken by Amanda Gatlin is one of my favorites from our travels.

http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/lava-lands-add-geologic-wow-to-bends-big-attractions/

Newberry National Volcanic Monument, south of Bend, has cones, caves, craters and more.

20/04/2017

True adventure can be found on high at Woodinville's Adventura Challenge Course
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/up-in-the-sky-aerial-adventure-courses-can-pump-you-up/

Woodinville’s Adventura is like an amped-up version of the ropes course you did at summer camp.

29/03/2017

Another day at the office. On assignment at Adventura Aerial Adventure Park in Woodinville, WA

26/01/2017

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2017/01/26/backcountry-sledding/

If you were to ask adults who grew up near snowy places to list their top ten days as a kid, a good number of them would probably have a sledding day or two on their list. The gaggle of kid…

08/12/2016

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2016/12/08/a-winter-road-trip-with-my-dad/

Mississippi didn’t want to let it’s wood go. Thousands of pounds of white oak was stacked in my Penske moving truck. It had been hewn in the Magnolia state, first for use as a county barn and now m…

03/11/2016

http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/november-is-hot-spring-season-in-the-wild-woods/?utm_source=The+Seattle+Times&utm_campaign=82d6bd8216-Morning_Brief_11_03_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5beb38b61e-82d6bd8216-121895681

When the weather is nasty, a geothermal pool is one of the few places where you can spend an entire day outside in comfort.

06/10/2016

Here's a suggestion for a good place to see fall colors this weekend:

http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/take-a-fall-drive-to-hunt-for-golden-larches-on-forest-roads-above-blewett-pass/

Search narrow high-mountain tracks for this colorful deciduous conifer.

03/10/2016

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2016/10/02/how-to-dismantle-a-barn-by-hand/

10/09/2016

Where to see Washington wildlife this fall

http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/who-needs-pokmon-when-you-have-real-washington-wildlife/?utm_source=The+Seattle+Times&utm_campaign=23d8a4ae86-Morning_Brief_9_08_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5beb38b61e-23d8a4ae86-121895681

Here’s where to look for creatures of the wild.

19/08/2016

Camping with a toddler on bikes - Bamping? BikePacking?

http://www.marriedtoadventure.com/2016/08/12/its-not-backpacking-its-bikepacking/

When our son Ian came on the scene nearly 2 years ago, we soon realized how hard it would be to actually go anywhere. Just getting out the door for a brief trip requires organizing colossal amounts…

02/07/2016

Just in case you're driving over the mountains this weekend...
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/3-waterfall-hikes-for-your-cross-state-drives/

Stretch your legs and see a watery wonder on your next road trip across the Cascades.