WILD STILLNESS is my first book, but it won’t be my last. The time I spend with Nature is part of an ongoing journey for me, and I don’t pretend to be making anything more than a blundering mess of the process, but the value I’ve discovered along the way is...
Summer’s heat has caused the desert to lose the color that clothed it during the spring months, and has reduced the landscape to something much more simple and bare. But even now, I realized during this hike, there is still a deeper beauty that is felt out here. I had...
Doing some hiking and exploring while visiting Northern Idaho. Clearwater National Forest has plenty of adventure-worthy stretches of land and water, and it was great to be able to sample some of these areas during this day...
I was wanting some time on the water, but I didn’t want to deal with the crowds at the lake. Fortunately, my packraft allows me to paddle away from the crowds, pack the thing up into my backpack, and then disappear further–so that’s what I did. I...
Sometimes the unplanned, grab-the-gear-and-go trips are just what is needed. This was one of those times. The sun was already nearing the horizon when I got out on the road toward my destination. I had tossed some basic items into my bag so that I had the option to...
Making time for Nature sometimes means squeezing in a quick mini-adventure here and there. With only a short amount of time to work with, I grabbed the lunch I had prepared to eat at home and set off into the desert instead. Incorporating shorter trips like this not...
