New Orleans is deservedly famous for its food. But the city鈥檚 many waterways, bike paths, and greenspaces are worthy, too鈥攁nd will help you earn those beignets.

6 a.m.听

Start your morning with a quick 1.8-mile run around the loop in Uptown鈥檚 Audubon Park, filled with herons, egrets, and centuries-old oaks.

8 a.m.听

Hit up on Jena Street for breakfast, where the menu is split between Good Cat (healthy) and Bad Cat (less so) options. Give in to sin and order the barbecue shrimp and grits.

10 a.m.听

Sign up with (from $37 for 75 minutes) to check out Bayou St. John in Mid-City. The canal is lined with historic homes and abuts 1,300-acre City Park.

12 p.m.听

Head to for a locals鈥�-favorite po鈥檅oy. Top it off with a wedding-cake-flavored snowball鈥擭ew Orleans鈥檚 version of shaved ice鈥攁t nearby Pandora鈥檚.

1:30 p.m.听

It鈥檚 time to ride. Grab a Blue Bike from the city鈥檚 recently launched ($8 per hour) and hop on the Lafitte Greenway. The 2.6-mile converted rail corridor drops you in the French Quarter, but cycle on to explore Crescent Park, a 20-acre riverfront greenspace.

4 p.m.听

Drop your bags at the 听(from $143), reopened in 2016 after a $10 million face-lift. The Garden District property blends blue-blood style and New Orleans funk鈥攖he lounge features a portrait of native son Lil Wayne with a slice of the restaurant鈥檚 signature Mile High Pie.

7 p.m.听

Formerly a neighborhood market, serves up a distinctively New Orleans take on French bistro fare. Be sure to reserve a table in advance鈥攅xecutive chef and owner Justin Devillier has been nominated for the James Beard Award five times (and won it in 2016).

9 p.m.听

At , a wine-shop-cum-courtyard-hangout in the bohemian Bywater area, pick up a bottle on the way in and choose a spot close to the stage for live local music.

12 a.m.听

End the night with鈥攚hat else?鈥攂eignets from in the heart of the French Quarter. The 156-year-old landmark is open 24 hours, so we won鈥檛 judge if you count it as breakfast.

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Luke Nelson doesn鈥檛 have a lot of free time. The 35-year-old Idaho native is a Patagonia trail-running ambassador, race organizer of , physician assistant, and author of the aptly听named blog, .听He鈥檚 also a dad to three kids under the age of 10. So when he lined up some precious time off this March, he jumped at the chance to take the family on a tour of the Southwest.

He and his wife, Tanae, packed up their 鈥�09 Tacoma and headed south from their home in Pocatello, spending ten days camping and exploring Zion, Capital Reef, Escalante, and the Grand Canyon. The logistics were no big deal鈥攖he family hits the road a dozen times a year to travel to trail races across the West. We asked Luke for his best advice on pulling off a (mostly) seamless family adventure.

Pick Somewhere for Everyone

We wanted the kids to experience the classic American road trip: drive through the desert, see some national parks, try to unplug from the world for a while. But when you live in Idaho, springtime in the desert is also awesome because you can run on trails, wear shorts, get sunburned. So I certainly had the underlying objective of trying to get in a bunch of training miles during the trip.

Let the Kids Call (Some of) the Shots

My kids each pack a little backpack for the road鈥攃oloring books, a couple of toys, and snacks.

Embrace the Dirt

Fitting five people and all their stuff in the truck can get out of hand quickly. We live by the motto, 鈥楲ess is more.鈥� For a week-long trip, we鈥檒l take two, maybe three changes of clothes and wash them between wears鈥攐r just wear them dirty because we鈥檙e camping and it doesn鈥檛 matter.

Work With What You鈥檝e Got

We have Sprinter envy all the time, but the truck works for us.

Easy Does It for Food

I worked for a few years as a river guide and quickly learned that, on a trip, the best food is food that鈥檚 already made. My wife prepares dinners in advance so that when we get to a campsite, it鈥檚 as simple as setting up the stove and warming up pre-made food.

Don鈥檛 Skimp on Snacks

The two things that we have to stop for are bathroom breaks or food. If we can keep snacks going鈥攔efilling trail mix, keeping water bottles full and flowing鈥攖hen we can make it a lot further between stops.

Don’t Plan (Well, Mostly Don’t Plan)

You have to have a rough idea of what you鈥檙e going to do, but with kids, you also need to be completely flexible. Sometimes you aren鈥檛 going to get where you thought you would or you鈥檒l want to stay longer. Before we leave, we鈥檒l ask other families and Facebook, 鈥淲e鈥檙e going to this place. Where do you recommend?鈥澨齌hen we fly by the seat of our pants and see how it goes.

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Pete Nelson鈥檚 first treehouse sat in a maple tree in his childhood home's听cramped Ridgewood, New Jersey, backyard. Small and no-frills, he'd听built it听with his father鈥檚 help, and听it felt like freedom to the 5 year old. Fifty years and 350 treehouses later, Nelson never quite shook that听feeling.

Nelson, now based in Fall City, Washington, is the de facto godfather of arboreal architecture. Since founding custom treehouse building company , he鈥檚 authored a half dozen books on the subject, opened , an aerial B&B in Issaquah, Washington, and hosts Animal Planet鈥檚 hit show , which kicks off its fifth season July 1. Though he鈥檚 graduated to building multi-room structures decked out with amenities like running water and recording studios, Nelson still considers treehouses a family affair: his wife, Judy, runs TreeHouse Point, twins Charlie and Henry work as carpenters on the show, and daughter Emily heads up online retailer .

We caught up with Nelson while he was in Kentucky,听where he was听working on a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired lake house perched in a peach tree. Here are his tips for building your aerie.

Pick a Tree That鈥檚 Going to Stick Around

Your oak trees, your maple trees, your Ponderosa pines, your Douglas firs. I like to find a tree that鈥檚 been through some weather and drought鈥攊t鈥檚 tested and strong.

Go Big听

Size-wise, look for 12听to听14 inches for trunk diameter on the low end. Then the sky鈥檚 the limit.

Spread the Weight

With single trees, you get into a lot more carpentry for proper support. If you鈥檙e looking at multiple trees, 16 feet is my ideal, DIY distance for spacing.

Remember That Trees Are Alive

Trees grow inversely鈥攖hey get fatter鈥攁nd move in the wind. You have to allow for that movement. If you鈥檙e involving multiple trees in your design and you your platform to one tree鈥攂olt your beam right to that tree, to keep everything in place鈥攖hen you鈥檝e got to have a on the other, to allow everything to shift in the wind.

Avoid Vertigo

My sweet spot is somewhere between 12 and 16 feet off the ground. It鈥檚 all about a different perspective. Twelve听feet might not seem high, but听if you鈥檙e 12 feet off the ground and fell, it would hurt.

Skip the Ladders

Ladders are dad killers. You hear nightmares about dad cleaning the gutters or putting up Christmas lights and you know what happens鈥� I like to build basic scaffolding with 2x4s and half-inch plywood. If you spend the time to create a nice, solid platform, then the work of building your treehouse platform is at waist level.

Break Out the Climbing Gear

Helmets and static safety lines鈥攙ery important. Rig up a safety line in the tree with a good, strong climbing rope, a harness, and a Prusik knot. That way if you鈥檙e on your platform and there鈥檚 no railing, you can freely march around, do your siding, all that stuff.

Make Mistakes

It鈥檚 your treehouse, and those mistakes might turn into your favorite part. I鈥檝e heard a lot lately that in our society we鈥檙e not allowed to fail, but a treehouse is the perfect place to experiment and fail. 鈥極h yeah, I could do that a little better,鈥� or 鈥楴ow that I鈥檝e done this, I wish I had done that…鈥� Just make it happen. I always felt like Nike stole one of the great automatics: Just do it.

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I grew up in New Orleans and learned to SUP on the bayous that carve through southern Louisiana. For the past year, though, it鈥檚 the waters of landlocked Montana I鈥檝e most wanted to explore, after a friend in Missoula told me about a chain of lakes in the westernmost part of Glacier. They are said to be sacred to the Blackfeet, clear pools carved out over thousands of years by glaciers dipping to about 250 feet at their deepest. Last October, I grabbed a friend, a wetsuit, and a paddleboard, and headed north.

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As you approach from Missoula, Glacier lies behind the Flathead Range, hidden until you gain elevation and the world opens up into more than a million acres of coniferous forests, glaciated peaks, and wildflower meadows. George Bird Grinnell, right-hand man to Teddy Roosevelt, led the charge to make it a national park in 1910, dubbing it 鈥渁n unmapped corner鈥攖he .鈥�

Pulling through the entrance gates, we were the only car to turn off the main road that connects West Glacier with East, following the Flathead River into the North Fork Valley. Down a rutty dirt road, past the century-old red clapboard , which still serves its famous huckleberry bear claws, and past the abandoned cabins of Glacier鈥檚 only homestead lie Quartz, Bowman, and Kintla Lakes, tucked so deep into the bowls between peaks that they seem to spring straight out of the granite.

Bowman is the closest of the three, sitting a half-hour from the Merc and drawing the biggest crowds. (There were eight of us on this unseasonably warm Saturday, with one canoe on the lake.) As we took our first strokes, the water was so clear that we could see rocks 40 feet down, and little flecks of gold danced on the glassy surface as the light hit the surrounding hillsides of deciduous larch. Paddling back to shore hours later, we collapsed on the rocky sand, rousing ourselves only to pitch a tent and finish a six-pack, clinking cups under a big sky.

The next morning, we headed an hour down the road to Kintla, a boomerang-shaped pool sitting in the shadow of Parke and Long Knife Peaks, a half-hour hike from Canada. The rangers and tourists had already packed it in for the season, so all six miles of the lake belonged to us鈥攁 welcome surprise until the sky darkened, the water started churning, and reality set in that the closest warm bodies were likely working their way through bear claws. Kintla is about a half-mile wide, and we could have paddled to shore and dragged the boards back to the car. Still, the remoteness was daunting鈥攏ot quite an unmapped corner, but close.

After a strained hour slamming to our knees as the wind kicked up, the clouds started to lift, revealing the mountains towering above. Cold, snow-dusted prisms, they wrapped around the lake, crowning the golden hillsides. I took a long look, trying to commit every peak and valley to memory, then dug the paddle back into the water and headed toward shore, hoping the Merc sold beer.

Access + Resources

When: Shoot for warm weather in late summer, or avoid the crowds in early fall.

How: Missoula, a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the park, offers direct flights from Denver and Atlanta. Kalispell鈥檚 Glacier Park airport, 25 miles west of the park, is closer but pricier.

Play: Bring your own inflatable paddleboard, or rent one from in West Glacier ($45).

Stay: On the drive from Missoula, spend the night in Whitefish at the and stick around for the gourmet breakfast. Bowman has the most developed campground of the three lakes.

Eat: Don鈥檛 miss the huckleberry bear claws at the in Glacier鈥檚 North Fork Valley.

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Colorado鈥檚 first serious avalanche accident of the season took place in Summit County on Saturday, according to the 听(CAIC). Summit County Rescue Group, assisted by a听helicopter from national emergency rescue听group Flight for Life, evacuated a skier听partially buried on the east side of Bald Mountain, near the town of Breckenridge, according to .

The man was skiing alone on a northeast-facing slope,听at an angle of about 38 degrees, that had received 20 inches of snow from the week鈥檚 storm. After the slide, he found a bar of cellphone听service and made multiple calls to 911. At 2 p.m. local time, he reached a dispatcher听to report that he was injured, according to CAIC听forecaster Scott Toepfer, who has听30 years of avalanche forecasting experience.听

The man was rescued at 4:30 p.m. MST. His injuries were not life听threatening, but he was at risk for hypothermia.

Two additional avalanches were reported in Summit County on Sunday.听One was located near Arapahoe Basin, but not within the ski area鈥檚 boundaries, and the other was near the top of Loveland Pass. No burials were reported.

鈥淏oth my boss, who was with me, and I kept saying, 鈥業 can鈥檛 believe how big this avalanche is on November 21,鈥欌�� said Toepfer, who visited the slide area the next day. 鈥淭his was an unusually听large avalanche for this time of year. And听as much as I love avalanches, that makes me very anxious.鈥�

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