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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A Sixteen Year Return to Mount Watatic
Today I hit Mount Watatic and Nutting Hill, two peaks located at the beginning, or the end depending on how you look at it, of the Wapack Trail. What brought me here was the fact I recently completed hiking all of the major peaks along the Wapack Range, but I couldn’t remember what Mount Watatic…
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Peakbagging for the Win
Lately with the chaos in the news, A.I. as a potential threat, foreign conflicts, oil prices rising, environmental protections being removed, it feels like every time I head out onto the trail I’m weighed down by this burden of thought—this wonder about how am I going to save the world enough to protect my children…
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The Great Pendulum
Our feet slipped there a bit,knocked out by a tidal waveformed years agoby a wisp or two. If we could have foreseen it,recognizing the knaves,skipping the showin favor of what’s true, I’m not sure anything would have changed much—just a postponement ofthe inevitable come about. For an oblong swingstarts from the slightest touchand sometimes needs…
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The Weights We Carry
Much is made about getting rid of our possessions and traveling light so that by lessening our burdens, we free our minds. And why not? The chance to cast off your shackles and gain clarity of thought is alluring. At some point in our lives, most of us feel like casting off our problems in…