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 locked into specifi...

In 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 waves crash into the sa...

After 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 and takes about an h...

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

In 1967, encouraged by his Medal of Honor holding grandfather and a suspicion that he would soon be drafted into the infantry, my dad enlist

A 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.

I'm a strong believer in personal growth through discomfort. If the strange path that I've taken in my life has taught me anything,

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 those kinds of contests ...

It's been a busy month. Here's what I've been up to recently.

From 2009 to 2012 ice and winter alpine climbing were pretty much all I ever thought about. This is what I learned about staying comfortable

After a slow start to winter, it started snowing sometime in early January and didn't really let up until sometime last week.

In 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

Food 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

Bears Ears National Monument was made to protect a vast, unique ecosystem and culturally significant place. So why did it all fall apart?

On 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

The 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 overcast fall day. ...

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 that has my friends ...

A lot has changed since I launched my first website almost 10 years ago in the spring of 2008...