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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Lessons from Mont Blanc: The White Mountain
I’m not a movie critic, nor do I aim to do movie reviews on this site, but I saw a movie the other day, on the plane of all places, that I thought was worth noting. Ironically, its title aligns with the name of the mountains that I’ve come to love so much. The White…
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Cigarettes and Dreams
She looked like cigarettes and dreams. The search for that one good, long drag that can pull some magic from the earth; turn rock into river and carry the rest of us someplace better. I’ve seen her kind before. A poet cloaked in a shell too beautiful for others to see the peace and the…
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Rounding Out the Wapack Range Summits
One of my recent side quests has been to climb all of the major summits in the Wapack Range—a stretch of earth popping up over the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Running North, it begins at Mount Watatic in Massachusetts and ends at North Pack Monadnock in Greenfield, New Hampshire. Many thru-hike the Wapack…
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A Mountain With Meaning: Montserrat
A couple weeks ago we were lucky enough to take a family trip to Spain. Well, Barcelona to be precise, but during our stay we took a couple of side quests. One was a train trip to the town of Figueres, to see the Dali museum and where the eccentric artist came from. The other…