Outdoors
In the mountains, deserts, forests, and on the water.
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The Night is Darkening Round Me
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant…
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Spend it Wisely
Last week, my wife and I packed our kids into the car and drove four hours to a cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Early…
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is different from any novel I’ve ever read. It’s experimental in the sense that it is composed of multiple tangled…
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Outdoor Books
I don’t get to spend as much time as I’d like out of doors and try to make up for it by reading. Here are…
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Needle Ice
This is needle ice, which I observed growing out of the ground the morning of September 12th next to a backcountry lake in Yosemite National…
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Insufficiently Fractal: The world we have built for ourselves is too abstract
I’ve just come back from a week of backpacking in the Sierra Nevada. The first day we got altitude sickness, by the second day my…