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 working on that, I come here to share tales from the trail, reflections on the writing process, and whatever else I’m exploring at the moment.
If you’ve got a moment, check out the latest posts and drop a comment if you have an experience to share or if something rings true for you. Whether you’re a hiker, a writer, or just someone who loves a good story, I hope you find something here that resonates as you pursue your own discoveries.
What’s New
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These Guys Were Nuts
Reading Bernadette McDonald’s “Winter 8000” There are too many names and facts to fully process in Bernadette McDonald’s Winter 8000. By the end of the first couple of chapters, my head was dizzy trying to keep it all straight. But regardless of the climbers’ names, or the 8000-meter peak they climbed, there is a recurring…
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Where Footprints End
Word came in, not from the news but our phones, messages for which we cannot atone. Our latest failure, a new agony born from an enemy we fail to see. It’s strange to me, for long before this pain, when I thought Providence, I thought of rain— the kind that eats through three layers of…
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Reading “The White Mountain”
The biggest problem I had with Dan Szczesny’s book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, is that it introduced me to so many cool people, I could hardly get through a page before I had to google someone or buy their book. After it led me to buy my second book—a collection from…
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NH High School Basketball: The Travel Grind
Written late last night in Claremont, NH. I’m currently writing this from Claremont, NH, where my son’s high school basketball team just took on Stevens High School. To get here, I drove two hours over a route that included Lempster Mountain Road—a roller coaster of white-knuckle stress I haven’t experienced in a long time. There…