Last week sadly, another wilderness traveler died of hypothermia in the High Peaks Wilderness. News of such calamities reminds me that winter isn’t an abstraction or a romantic postcard—it’s a force ...

Featured on WGN Radio’s “Home Sweet Home Chicago” on 1-30-2026: Mr. Floor himself, Igor Murokh, joins the program to talk about Chicago’s recent cold snap and the cold hard facts about how it can ...

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