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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Messages From the Federal Hill Fire Tower
Early this morning, after visiting Monson Village, I still had a little time and since I was in the area, I thought I’d visit Federal Hill. Monson was great, but I need to go up something each week, and without any guarantees on the calendar for the next several days, I wasn’t going to let…
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There Be Ghosts Out Here
There was no time for mountains today. It’s Tax Day after all, and there’s a bunch of other stuff on my plate, so I couldn’t take time out for a long drive. But I still needed to get the lead out with a little hiking, so before work I explored something a little closer to…
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The Book I’m Not Writing… Yet
I’m in pretty good shape now, but for the better part of the past decade, I dealt with a significant health issue that made life more than a little difficult at times. When things were really rough, I needed to vent, and I posted a lot of entries here on the site, which was not…
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The Wolf Tree
Where the new wood grows, out past Caesar’s Brook, stands an old one who knows how this world used to look. How the sheep would chew, and rest in the shade, while the farmer would coo ’bout the progress he made. How the walls went up to keep livestock in, forming borders to pup all…