Annie Fast

Kimmy Fasani’s Life Sentence of Living: A feature interview with pro snowboarder and breast cancer survivor Kimmy Fasani.

When is a mountain more than a mountain? When it’s a natural training ground for one of the best snowboarders in the world. Ben Ferguson is an Olympian, a multi-time X Games medalist and easily one of the most influential and stylish riders of his generation—he’s also a born-n-bred Mt. Bachelor local.

Laurenne Ross is an awesome success story straight from the slopes of Mt. Bachelor, having recently capped a 13-year alpine ski racing career with the U.S. Ski Team.

This Story was Published in Issue #24.
As I write this, we’re just coming off a few days camping in “the lot” at Mt. Bachelor over New Year’s Eve. Our second winter lot camping trip of the season. A series of storms was stacked up, the winds were gusting across the mountain, the snow was not expected to stop. So, we packed up our van and our four-year-old son and drove all of 30 miles to live at the mountain for a few days. We weren’t alone, plenty of our friends als...

Dine up high this summer at Oregon mountain resorts.

I don’t know what I thought raising a little skier/snowboarder would be like, but the reality of teaching your kids in the early days is not entirely the idyllic rewarding experience I had imagined. The reality is that the pace is slow and success looks different for a youngster than it does for ourselves. A great day on the slopes isn’t measured by the amount of vertical you log in a day—it’s measured in smiles and fun. This was my biggest takeaway from our five-year old’s les...

The new Outdoor Products Degree at Oregon State University Cascades in the outdoor mecca of Bend, “combines product commercialization, lands stewardship, and experiential learning to educate and inspire future leaders for the opportunities and challenges in the outdoor industry....

The summer of 2021 saw nonstop action on Mt. Hood’s Palmer snowfield ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

There’s an ebb and flow that happens from baby to toddler to a capable, yet reluctant, five-year-old. But one thing is for sure, getting out on the trails will save your sanity and having the right gear is key.

When we bought our Dodge Ram ProMaster, we didn’t have a great template to follow for the conversion to accommodate our family of three. We had just sold our Four Wheel Pop Up Truck Camper. The camper was amazing, but it just wasn’t working for all our gear and for the stop-and-go style of traveling we were now doing with our then three-year-old in tow.
We started with a new 2019 Ram ProMaster 2500 cargo van with a high roof and 159-inch wheelbase. We opted for this van over the Mercedes Spri...

Kids bikes is a category that has seen so much change in recent years. Bikes are now designed and built for kids as opposed to shrunk down from adult sizes. What that looks like is a much more fun experience for kids and the opportunity to start kids biking at a much younger age.

Sometimes a plan just comes together. That sums up a recent impromptu hike up Mt. Bachelor one sunny Sunday afternoon. Our group consisted of a group of close friends, all longtime Bendites. The idea of hiking up Mt. Bachelor to close out the weekend in late July came though the group chat, and a few hours later, the six of us met up at the West Village base area ready for a chatty hike up the mountain.

Our destination was a remote surf break in Costa Rica. Our packing list was not light and fast, it was more along the lines of heavy and bogged down—but that’s kind of the deal with kids. See what we brought.

Professional mountain biker Carson Storch is a leader in the sport of freeriding. The growth in this sport across Oregon is reflected in the newly abundant lift-accessed freeride trails at mountain resorts, an increase in public freeride trails, freeride-oriented youth camps, and top-tier events on local calendars...

Emily Jackson is a celebrated World Freestyle Kayak Champion with podium finishes across possibly every discipline of kayaking. We caught up with Emily and her family in Cascade, Idaho. The family travels about ten months out of their year in their RV running rivers, attend...