High Lakes Tenkara
October 3, 2014 Tonight I heated a flat slab of granite in the firepit, then used the rock to plank-cook two salted tenkara-caught cutthroat trout for dinner. // Last night was windy, but the…
Essays
Technical notes on strategy, trust, systems, and durable growth.
Finding Lightning
It's not hard to find something if you know where to look. After all, Lightning Lake is on the map, you can get GPS coordinates for it, and you can see it with Google…
The Certain Uncertainty of Off-Trail Travel
Planning off-trail travel is sometimes an exercise in theory. You really don't realize how much of it is entertainment until your feet are on the ground. Much of the time, in rather short order,…
Packrafting the Smith River: Day 4
Packrafting the Smith River: Day 4 Gusty winds blew across the bench above the river where we were camped last night at Rattlesnake Bend. They swirled around unpredictably and I slept with one eye…
Packrafting the Smith River: Day 3
I've always held fast to the idea that spending time in the wilderness offers the clarity of thought that comes with having to make fewer inane decisions, being insulated from the incessant distractions of…