Habits & Resilience
I arrive in the Sequoias alone at dusk, 200 hundred miles from my family, the night of the wolf moon.
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Comfort Is Your Enemy
The first (and arguably) most important lesson you would have learned, had you been in the Moorpark Community College photography program, was announced by a...
Stop Buying Solutions.
Start Understanding Problems.
Overlooking the route. Moments later, we sheltered from an electrical storm.
You Cool? (Part 2) If it’s brown, lay down….sometimes
This is part 2 of a story that started by mistaking some deer for hungry bears.
You Cool? (Part 1) Bears on the Teton Crest Trail
Two sets of wide-set eyes peered at me through the darkness… Evening set in as I walked back to camp from my cat hole. At the edge of the brush where my h...
The ‘Ten Essentials’ - Navigation
Every day you survive, you get a free sunset. – Beans on Toast
Trekking Poles: Stability, Mobility, and Utility
The author on a bare-footed hike in the Coconino National Forest
Pine Forests of the Sierra Nevada Foothills
This is a repost from July 2022