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Home Hill
We tend to think of our home ski hills in terms of specific days: the late-winter day it dumped an unforecast 14 inches; the day ...
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Cherishing Our Public Lands
Many of my favorite memories took place in some part of our nation’s public lands—lands held in the public trust for the benefit of all ...
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Passing the Torch
As the school year came to a close, my family and I were sitting around the dinner table discussing plans for the summer. Hanging out ...
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Climbing Walls or Community Action? Finding a Balance Between Activism and Athleticism
I took a deep breath before plunging under the overpass on my way back to work after a session at Wild Walls climbing gym. The ...
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The Ever Changing Radius
At age 18, to impress a girl on the track team, I went for my first run. Dressed in a ratty pair of gym shorts ...
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Why I Still Run
In June 2015, I wrote an article for Out There Monthly called “Why I Run” about training for my first 50k trail run. The run ...
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Canyon Canoeing at Bonnie Lake
It was midweek halfway through spring when we rumbled along a dusty road south of Cheney with our rented EWU canoe humming atop our station ...
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The Van Gogh Ski Crash
The look on Mat’s face told me everything I didn’t want to know. I could feel the blood running down my neck into my shirt, ...
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A Duct Tape Then Beer Odyssey
Back in 2007, Fitz Cahall used his tiny bedroom closet in Seattle as a studio to begin recording what would eventually become The Dirtbag Diaries. ...
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