'Tis the Season

December 20, 2015  •  Leave a Comment
Each winter, as temperatures plummet and snow builds in the mountains, my thoughts turn to the next summer backpacking season. There’s an odd little excitement I get in hunkering down while the weather outside is frightful and pouring over topo maps and trip reports, considering the myriad backpack trip options. Because I like to have friends join...
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I love the mountains!

December 11, 2015  •  Leave a Comment
I feel my breath, my lungs like a bello ws, sucking the air in and blowing it out. In, out, in, out... I don’t really want to hear myself breathe because it reminds me that I’m working my ass off to get up this mountain. I feel the burn – in my thighs, my calves, my throat – it hurts, but that pain means I’m ALIVE. This is some hard work. My heart...
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Gotta Start Somewhere

November 30, 2015  •  Leave a Comment
There's a long back story to how I happen to have photos of some really beautiful and interesting places: places in the wilderness that you can only see by getting there on your own two feet. I'll get into that story in future posts. For now, I'll just say that it wasn't always this way for me. The most I ever used to see of nature was what I saw i...
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