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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, 2021February 22, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Adventure, Backpacking11 Minutes Read

Level II Fun (Part 2): Out of the Pain Cave, Into the Light

Level II Fun (Part 2): Out of the Pain Cave, Into the Light

Posted on August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Adventure, Personal Essay8 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.

Posted on July 1, 2019January 26, 2020 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Activism, Report9 Minutes Read

In Through the Out Door: How Going Out Into Nature Leads Us In to Our Truest Selves

In Through the Out Door: How Going Out Into Nature Leads Us In to Our Truest Selves

Posted on May 6, 2019June 3, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness, Nature, Personal Essay7 Minutes Read

Mountain Madness: The Limits of Human Endurance and Lessons the Mountains Teach

Mountain Madness: The Limits of Human Endurance and Lessons the Mountains Teach

Posted on January 2, 2019July 3, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness, Hiking, Personal Essay10 Minutes Read

John Salathé: A Brief History of Yosemite’s First Climbing Legend: The Early Years

John Salathé: A Brief History of Yosemite’s First Climbing Legend: The Early Years

Posted on August 6, 2018August 10, 2018 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Biography, Climbing, History8 Minutes Read

A Monster Hike: Arethusa Falls and Frankenstein Cliffs

A Monster Hike: Arethusa Falls and Frankenstein Cliffs

Posted on July 13, 2018July 8, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Hiking, Nature, Personal Essay6 Minutes Read

Dirtbag Dreams: Fantasy vs Reality

Dirtbag Dreams: Fantasy vs Reality

Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Argument, Climbing, Community9 Minutes Read

Who the Fuck is Brad Gobright?

Who the Fuck is Brad Gobright?

Posted on June 13, 2018November 28, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Climbing, Community, Profile9 Minutes Read

Mountain Buddha: The Origin Story

Mountain Buddha: The Origin Story

Posted on May 30, 2018May 31, 2018 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Definition, Ethnography, Personal Essay12 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

https://livelifeoutofdoors.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/20200903_hiddenbrain_hb_r58_-_meaning_at_work_-_092020_-_full.mp3

The Secret to self control is giving up control.

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“It is necessary to be sometimes exclusive, not on behalf of wealth or rank, but of those human qualities that can apprehend loneliness.”

Nan Shepherd

Spring is fast approaching here in the Northeasern United States. It’s time to emerge from our dens and spend even more time outdoors

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