Zero five-hundred comes early. Burgers, beers, friends, and whiskey quickly turn twenty-three hundred into zero two-hundred pretty quickly as well. I guess that is why…
Category: NOLS
23 August 2016 “I need to get you to sign some paperwork before I leave” he says. He is sitting on the counter in the…
Read the PostTurning of the Page (on being a NOLS Instructor part X)
24 July 2017–The waning gibbous moon provides ample early morning light as our crampons crunch on less than hard snow. Despite the ample ambient lighting,…
Editors Note: This is a blog post I wrote back in the Autumn of 2012 during my first sojourn south to New Zealand. Though slightly…
Read the PostSeven Months In Advance (on being a NOLS instructor part VIII)
They are the best of times, they are the worst of times, they are places of wisdom, they are places of foolishness, they are places…
The following is an essay that I wrote shortly after returning from my first NOLS course as an instructor. I am posting it here, today…
(Editors Note: In the summer of 2013, I worked a course with Adam Swisher and Peter Nichols. For some reason we became infatuated with our…
The plane touched down sometime around ten pm. Next to me, Brenna leaned forward and peered out the small window at the light subdued darkness. …
The day started much like the previous ones in India, with us cooking on a porch and rain falling from the sky. This morning we…
Cassiopeia and Ursa Major make their slow, daily rotation around the hulking 6,611 meter shoulder of the Nanda Devi satellite peak, Nanda Khat (the bed…
All I want to do is lie back down, curl up and rest. Sleep won’t come, but the lethargy is winning its battle. “I accidentally…
Above me white puffs of cloud swirl in and out of blue skies. They coalesce out of nothingness, dance and paint the blue sky canvas…
Isn’t actually a road at all, at least in the direction from which we are approaching. Initially it is a wide expanse of white snow,…
As usual, I wished for rain. It is always easier on the ego than feigning a case of the Sphinx Sphincter or Gannett Gut, things…