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Navigating the Market: How to Buy Your First (Used) Mountain Bike

Navigating the Market: How to Buy Your First (Used) Mountain Bike

After the stars fade from your eyes and reality begins to set in, you realize that the mountain bike market is much more expansive and much more expensive than you initially realized. 

Posted on May 22, 2022May 22, 2022 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Writing10 Minutes Read

How A Hobby Will Save Your Life

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How A Hobby Will Save Your Life

Do hobbies matter? To what degree and why? Perhaps, more than we ever thought possible.

Posted on July 12, 2021July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness11 Minutes Read

Taste the Rainbow: Diversity, Inclusion, and the Outdoors Community

Taste the Rainbow: Diversity, Inclusion, and the Outdoors Community

Why are the outdoors and so many of its brands so white? In this essay I ask those questions, and try to provide a couple of answers. (This is a repost from 2019)

Posted on June 17, 2021July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Activism, Report9 Minutes Read

To Be, or Not to Be… Prepared

To Be, or Not to Be… Prepared

I had prepared for everything: food, snacks, extra clothing (layers), the elements, hydration. Everything but the terrain.

Posted on February 22, 2021July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Adventure, Backpacking11 Minutes Read

Buffalo Soldiers: The (Almost) Forgotten History of America’s First NPS Rangers

Buffalo Soldiers: The (Almost) Forgotten History of America’s First NPS Rangers

Who were America’s first ranger in the National Parks System? The Buffalo Soldiers. Black troops of the 9th and 10th Cavalry of the U.S. Army. This is the story of their work in the NPS.

Posted on June 10, 2020July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn History, Racism14 Minutes Read

A Moving Routine: Coffee, Poop, and the Truth About Your Morning Kickstarter

A Moving Routine: Coffee, Poop, and the Truth About Your Morning Kickstarter

‘Coffee makes me poop’ is a widely known meme on the web, but how much truth is there. Coffee and poop: myth or fact? Only one way to find out.

Posted on June 1, 2020July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Humor6 Minutes Read

Can’t Stop: Physical Exhaustion and Mental Health

Can’t Stop: Physical Exhaustion and Mental Health

Posted on May 25, 2020July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness4 Minutes Read

Jane Goodall: Modern Prophet for a Modern Age

Jane Goodall: Modern Prophet for a Modern Age

Posted on April 22, 2020July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Activism, Review7 Minutes Read

After Forever: The World After Covid-19

After Forever: The World After Covid-19

As Wildlife begin to explore urban communities, and our skies clear of toxic smog, I can’t help but wonder: what will the world look like after Covid-19?

Posted on March 30, 2020July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness, Sustainability10 Minutes Read

You've Got a Friend in Me: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Natural World

You've Got a Friend in Me: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Natural World

To change the world requires us to radically alter the way we think about our relationship with it. See what that means in this week’s piece.

Posted on March 23, 2020July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness, Mindfulness, Nature, Writing8 Minutes Read

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Finding Greater Meaning in the Mundane. This podcast is a companion piece to the essay, “Denkwork: the Promise of Work, and the Work of Promises”, from September of 2019

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