Leah Iraheta:  

solo car camping and hiking trip through the Southwest a couple of years ago. There's nothing like waking up in a tent alone in a Zion campground, half buried in new snow and the sun glinting on high, red rock walls! Passions and great likes: friends/family, my daughter Amelia, mountains, glaciers, justice, compassion, laughing, snow, meaningful work, Stehekin, El Salvador and Salvadorans, wild flowers, Holden, the whistle of marmots in the mountain mist, Ireland and the Irish, western Scotland, Shakira, great literature, decent mysteries, trad Andean and Irish music, pear martinis, the North Cascades Highway-- and every trail that leads away from it, babies and dogs, old growth cedar forests, Thai food, high mountain lakes, learning things that surprise me, winter ocean storms, the internet, and the list goes on. Life is just too damned short!