How to be Cozy AF

This time of year, your survival may depend on it. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

CERTAIN ADVENTURERS RELISH THE COLD, the suffering, the suck, of being outdoors in the winter. I am not one of those people. But I still enjoy this season of snowshoeing, cross-country, downhill, and snowball fights.

Which is why I was a pretty good choice to write this article for Backpacker.com.

Do you know about hygge, the nearly unpronounceable (HEE-gah, HYOO-guh, HEEOOO-ga-uh?) Danish art of coziness and connection? You can read all about it here, as Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, guides you to the promised land of warm hugs and even warmer cockles. (Anybody know what a cockle is? Sounds dirty.)

As the sun barely peeks over the horizon, then sets long before we’re ready, there’s only one choice: To embrace home, hearth, and hygge, like Danish people do.