Patrol Campfire
Patrol Campfire Tobacco Root Mountains, March 2010 (Sigma DP2, f/2.8 15s) Our Scouts are learning about lightweight backpacking. Unlike most of us, who learned about it on our own, these kids are learning it…
Essays
Technical notes on strategy, trust, systems, and durable growth.
Olympic Coast Sunset (1991, Nikon FM2, Fuji Velvia)
Olympic Coast Sunset Near Cape Alava, WA (Nikon FM2, Fuji Velvia, March 1991) There is something to be said about film and it's hard to put it into words, so here's a photo instead.…
Spring Hostility in Montana (Photo: Sigma DP2)
Spring Hostility in Montana, Sigma DP2 (click for larger) Last weekend we took the Scout troop on their first backpacking trip of the season into the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains. We…
Wild Places Breed Humility and Unselfishness
Big Wall Camp Escalante, UT 2004 Wilderness has a way of making you feel really small, and insignificant. It's too bad that the natural tendencies of real people in the real world don't…
The Lone Ranger (Backcountry Skiing in the Beartooth Mountains)
The Lone Ranger Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, 2004 I'm a sucker for final scenes of old western movies. You know, the one where the cowboy's riding away from the camera on some dusty desert trail…