Remains of the Day

 I'm pleased to share that my essay "Five Hundred Miles" appears in the 2022 issue of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry....

November is always a long month for me, what with the short days, downed leaves, and impending work season. This year it has been especially...

I've been listening to this podcast episode on Backpacker Radio over the last few days (it's taking days because it's really ...

The last (for now) of the short pieces I've been writing over the last year about our Colorado Trail hike last summer has just been pu...

The whole (purported) purpose of quitting my job and hiking the Colorado Trail last summer was to write a book about the hike, a hike on the...

Before setting off on the Colorado Trail, I had great hopes of creating an artistic journal, something along the lines of this: From Moo...

In today's post, I answer some of the most common questions I get about our trip. How far did you hike? The official length o...

I finally got my computer's hard drive cleaned off enough that I could upload *most* of the photos from our trip (and doing so filled...