Dan HildenMar 26, 20202 minAimless in Colombia Part III: The Northern CoastLyndsey and I went to Colombia’s Caribbean coast because neither of us had sat on a beach doing nothing in a very long time. We rented a ...
Dan HildenMar 11, 202010 minAimless Wanderings in Colombia Part 2: Mompox and CartagenaI tend to forgo comfort for flexibility when I travel. I hate booking rooms or domestic flights far in advance because I don’t like being...
Dan HildenJan 30, 20209 minCentral ColombiaIn my adult life, I’ve never really travelled anywhere without some stated purpose. I’ve hardly ever sat on a beach just to watch the wav...
Dan HildenMar 22, 20196 minVietnam Part Two: Da NangAfter a few days of wandering around in Ho Chi Minh City, my brother, Nick, and I flew to Da Nang. The flight costs about $50 per person ...
Dan HildenMar 11, 20195 minVietnam Part One: Planes, Trains, Automobiles: From a small mountain town to a big Asian city.It took me about 36 hours to get from my little house in a shady canyon on the eastern fringe of the Cascade Mountains to downtown Ho Chi Mi
Dan HildenFeb 28, 20196 minVietnam: An IntroductionIn 1967, encouraged by his Medal of Honor holding grandfather and a suspicion that he would soon be drafted into the infantry, my dad enlist
Dan HildenMay 19, 20181 minLeavenworth Rockfest 2018A few months ago my friend Matt Bowen got a hold of me and asked if I'd be down to shoot photos of the 19th annual Leavenworth Rockfest.
Dan HildenMay 14, 20183 minAlaska 2018: A Full-Value Life ExperienceI'm a strong believer in personal growth through discomfort. If the strange path that I've taken in my life has taught me anything,
Dan HildenMar 29, 20181 minContest Winner!I don't enter many photo contests. Most either want to own the rights to any photos that you submit, or charge an entry fee. I write thos...
Dan HildenFeb 9, 20189 minPacking Light, and Packing Right: Part 4... Staying Warmish and DryishFrom 2009 to 2012 ice and winter alpine climbing were pretty much all I ever thought about. This is what I learned about staying comfortable
Dan HildenFeb 6, 20181 minLost in a Powder StormAfter a slow start to winter, it started snowing sometime in early January and didn't really let up until sometime last week.
Dan HildenDec 15, 20176 minPacking Light, and Packing Right: Part 3... Hot Food and Clean WaterIn my last post I went over food and hydration in the mountains. Now I’ll go into the gear end of things: stoves and water purification meth
Dan HildenDec 10, 20177 minPacking Light, and Packing Right: Part 2... The HungerFood planning and packing for long trips isn’t easy: your pack is always going to be heavier than you'd like, and you’re going to be bur
Dan HildenDec 6, 20176 minBears Ears National Monument: A Casualty of Modern PoliticsBears Ears National Monument was made to protect a vast, unique ecosystem and culturally significant place. So why did it all fall apart?
Dan HildenOct 16, 20178 minPacking Light, and Packing Right: Part 1... Sleeping SystemsOn a gray, damp morning a few days before Thanksgiving in 2007, I set out on a three day hike to some obscure sub-alpine lakes near the Moun
Dan HildenOct 9, 20174 minPacking Light, and Packing Right: Lessons from the field on what to put in your pack, and what to leThe trail climbs steeply out of sight into the dreary world of green and grey, the ancient Douglas Firs blocking most of the light of the...
Dan HildenAug 22, 20172 minTurns All Year!Skiing powder is pretty great, and I live where I do specifically so that I can do it a lot. But even in the midst of a wild storm cycle ...
Dan HildenAug 19, 20178 minNew Website; New Blog!A lot has changed since I launched my first website almost 10 years ago in the spring of 2008...
Dan Hilden Mar 26, 2020 2 min Aimless in Colombia Part III: The Northern Coast Lyndsey and I went to Colombia’s Caribbean coast because neither of us had sat on a beach doing nothing in a very long time. We rented a ...
Dan Hilden Mar 11, 2020 10 min Aimless Wanderings in Colombia Part 2: Mompox and Cartagena I tend to forgo comfort for flexibility when I travel. I hate booking rooms or domestic flights far in advance because I don’t like being...
Dan Hilden Mar 26, 2020 2 min Aimless in Colombia Part III: The Northern Coast Lyndsey and I went to Colombia’s Caribbean coast because neither of us had sat on a beach doing nothing in a very long time. We rented a ...
Dan Hilden Mar 11, 2020 10 min Aimless Wanderings in Colombia Part 2: Mompox and Cartagena I tend to forgo comfort for flexibility when I travel. I hate booking rooms or domestic flights far in advance because I don’t like being...
Dan Hilden Mar 26, 2020 2 min Aimless in Colombia Part III: The Northern Coast Lyndsey and I went to Colombia’s Caribbean coast because neither of us had sat on a beach doing nothing in a very long time. We rented a ...
Dan Hilden Mar 11, 2020 10 min Aimless Wanderings in Colombia Part 2: Mompox and Cartagena I tend to forgo comfort for flexibility when I travel. I hate booking rooms or domestic flights far in advance because I don’t like being...