PinnedA Native American ExperienceIt is a few days after the now (F)ederally recognized Indigenous People’s Day, beginning with Oct. 11, 2021. I have been very intentionally choosing ways of honoring this confusing rebranding of Columbus Day, trying to get cozy in the obvious contradiction. I am transcribing the essay below to Medium from…15 min read15 min read
PinnedSeeking The Unknowna 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…North Cascades21 min readNorth Cascades21 min read
PinnedCold Is My Teacher: That Night I Almost Froze to Death“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…Hypothermia14 min readHypothermia14 min read
PinnedMoving With Your Mind In The LandHow 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…Mountaineering33 min readMountaineering33 min read
May 13, 2021Monkey See, Monkey DoThis 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…Founder Stories19 min readFounder Stories19 min read
Oct 24, 2020That Time I Tangled with a CougarOn 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. …Wildlife Conservation12 min readWildlife Conservation12 min read
