One afternoon last August, a delivery truck rolled up outside my house in Denver. Two men got out, dollied a…
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NOTE: In 2018, I started recording interviews with creatives (writers, filmmakers, podcasters, photographers, editors, etc.) in the adventure world. I’m…
Every year when temperatures drop and snow blankets our cities, North American cultures observe the appearance of a kind-of rare…
Because you know you want your car to smell like your weekend. —Brendan
For the past couple years, I’ve drawn non-scientific charts and other doodles and posted them regularly on my Instagram feed.…
Here you are again: Holiday shopping season is upon us, and you’re wondering, “How will I get the perfect gift…
Do you follow THOSE PEOPLE on Instagram? Their lives look so perfect! Here’s the truth about them: Their lives ARE…
It’s (hopefully) common knowledge that if you want to climb a Colorado 14er in the summer, you should be on…
No one wants to be the person who leaves a store and becomes the subject of retail employees’ horror stories—but…
I was in Zermatt last week and was fortunate to gaze upon the incredible Matterhorn, at the south end of…
A couple nights before leaving on a backpacking trip, I decided to finally dig up a Trangia stove I’d received…
To climb rocks: Use your feet. Despite what you may have seen in Cliffhanger, or depictions of climbing in energy…
From 2012 to 2014, I lived full time out of a 2005 Chevy Astrovan. I had moved out of an…
Last Wednesday, around the ninth switchback in the M Trail at the University of Montana, my legs and lungs screamed…
Here’s a thing you may have experienced: You’re about to head out on a trip in the outdoors, for three…
Last week, I gave the address at the commencement ceremony for the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning. It was…
A couple hundred feet from the top of Avalanche Gulch on Mount Shasta last Monday morning, my friend Abi and…
Mashing up Kanye West’s tweets with New Yorker cartoons has been done before (in 2010 here and a few weeks…
In 2004, my friend Nick and I went on a 10-day road trip from Montana to Phoenix, where I was…
4:35 a.m. The wind blows across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, 20 mph constant. Mitsu and I hurriedly…