



A Letter to my Students



Human Triggered Avalanches Likely

PART I: What Were You Thinking How long can I keep skinning without a headlamp? You should be able to get up this trail without a headlamp…. I’m getting soft…..what did Steve say….oh yeah, drink some concrete and harden up. I miss being on the boat…. Man, people were tough back in the day…. Ok, [...]

“Guys like you…..”

Laying on the wooden bench I watched as dust drifted down between the cracks of the decaying ceiling tiles.  Finally some rest. On the table above my head there was leftover pizza, a beer, and the waning minutes of the Rangers game emanated from my phone. Gibbs and Frizz would be here soon. I had [...]

Why We Go

  This is an excerpt from the 2016 Outdoor Orientation speech at the Waynflete School in Portland, ME.  Recently I was asked to think about a place in the world to which I feel connected. After I identified this place, I was then supposed to explain to the people in my group why this particular [...]

Spring Edit It has been a hectic season with the Monday through Friday job mixed with training + the weekend gig teaching AIARE courses with Acadia Mountain Guides. However, in the midst of the hustle some fortuitous trips occurred that provided deep snow (Crystal Mountain, WA), steep corn (Mt. Washington, NH), and incredibly aesthetic lines (Estes [...]

Returning Home

Only a handful of people actually understand why I left work early, seemingly abandoning my day-to-day responsibilities, to fly to Seattle. Truth be told, it wasn’t an impulsive desire to chase winter storms (although as luck would have it there were plenty of those throughout the trip), and while I imagine myself still being brazen [...]