Welcome!
My name’s Matt, and I love to write and hike. I’m the author of 4000s by 40 and am currently working on book two. When I’m not doing that, I come here to share tales from the trail, reflections on the writing process, and explore hidden truths.
Whether you’re a hiker, a writer, or just someone trying to figure out their own next step, I hope this site encourages you to keep getting outside, keep exploring, and keep making new discoveries. I suppose this place serves as a very public reminder to myself that I need to keep doing the same.
Enjoy it out there!
What’s New
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Wait, Should I Be Here?
There’s a path in my town I’ve been driving by for years, that I’ve always wondered about. There’s no trail sign for it. There’s no designated parking lot for it either. But every time I pull up to this one intersection, I can see down this path and it looks like it runs for a…
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I Can Grow Things!
I’m not fifty yet, but something in my left knee keeps telling me that it won’t be long before AARP magazines come fluttering along the summer breeze and land safely on my front door. Is it weird that I’m kind of interested in what they have to say? Maybe they’ll tell me how I can…
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First Steps Back
After being laid out for the past three days with a whomper of a weird virus that didn’t cause many symptoms other than to knock me out, I was overjoyed this morning to wake up and not feel dizzy for the first time in three days. I was still a little slow, but by midday…
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Grounded: Planning the Next Adventure
Had a good run there, chasing mountains, writing, and doing what I can to be in several places at the same time, but it’s all caught up with me—I’m sick. Hopefully it doesn’t last too long, but when I woke this morning and found myself feeling dizzy, I knew it was time to slam the…