“I am an ERISA/employee benefits attorney now practicing in-house at CenturyLink Inc. Living in Colorado, it is accepted that you are going to have adventures in the outdoors on a weekly basis. Our culture embraces and celebrates climbing “14ers,” skiing/boarding—and upskiing and backcountry and cross-country, cycling, whitewater rafting, paddleboarding and doing yoga on paddleboards, marathons and ultra-marathons and polar plunges. Generally, Colorado is the birthplace of many extreme sports.”

“A weekend can find me and my husband, Kevin, climbing a mountain, cycling a mountain pass and doing SUP yoga on Lake Dillon. We ski at least 40 days a year—it’s hard to think about work when you are skiing extreme terrain or navigating backcountry. But to really de-stress, we love to travel and have found adventures all over the world, most recently in Peru hiking the Salkantay Trail to Macchu Picchu, which involved a 65-mile hike that went over a 15,000 pass and down to the edge of the Amazon jungle and then up other passes, ending at Macchu Picchu.

“When our daughter studied in Nepal, we visited her and hiked part of the Annapurna trail from Jomsom to Muktinath to Lubra back to Jomson. We also visited Chitwan National Park in the south and trekked through the jungle and rode an elephant.

“On a particularly trying day at work I got an unsolicited email from IcelandAir offering an amazing deal and decided on the spot to book the trip to Iceland for a long January weekenddwe loved it! We hiked all over, under waterfalls and on glaciers (pictured), rode snowmobiles and even splashed in the freezing north Atlantic. We just returned from French Polynesia where we cycled and snorkeled the islands of Moorea and Bora Bora.

“To maintain balance, focus and purpose, I am planning our next adventure a year out and certainly before we leave on the current one.”