a solo traversal from Stetattle Ridge to Mt Prophet — “Human beings are creatures of belonging, though they may come to that sense of belonging only through long periods of exile and loneliness. We belong to life as much through our sense that it is all impossible as we do through the sense that we will accomplish everything we have set…

“There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity. It’s not easy to recognize there that line is, but you know when you cross it.” ~ Leo… — “There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity. It’s not easy to recognize where that line is, but you know when you cross it.” ~ Leo Houlding, Fine Lines Let me tell you the story of my trip into the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico in late winter 2020. I…

How a solo traversal of two mountains in the North Cascades helped connect me with the land where I live. — How a solo traversal of two mountains in the North Cascades helped connect me with the land where I live. All humans evolved within complex land based cultures over deep time to develop a brain with a capacity for over 100 trillion neural connections of which we now only use…

This article is a response to a prompt by Balaji Srinivasan on his task completion project, 1729.com. It will get much more personal than… — This article is a response to a prompt by Balaji Srinivasan on his task completion project, 1729.com. It will get much more personal than intellectual. I will use a compact version of my life story thus far — the familial, financial, educational, and professional parts — as anecdotal evidence to…

On Thursday, Oct. 23, 2020, while pedaling my mountain bike up a long logging road in the North Cascades, I was assaulted by a mountain… — On Thursday, Oct. 23, 2020, while pedaling my mountain bike up a long logging road in the North Cascades, I was assaulted by a mountain lion. I prefer the word ‘sparred’ because we did a kind of dance checking each other out. …