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...

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...

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...

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,

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...

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