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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Lock-Steps
Something has been coming up in conversation a lot lately that I thought might be helpful to mention. Well, helpful if you’re a hiker or climber looking to take on rugged mountains or some other difficult terrain. Maybe this comes up around the water cooler at work, but more likely, it comes up on the…
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We Had to Climb Something: Park City’s Desolation Peak
The fam and I took our first full-family ski vacation out west last week, and of course, we had to climb something. It wasn’t even my idea, I swear! One of my kids led the charge, and to my unbounded delight, nobody resisted the idea. In fact, there was enthusiasm all around. I had been…
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To the Gorge! — Ice Climbing Flume Gorge
The first time I heard about people ice climbing Flume Gorge, I was probably eighteen years old. It was only a little before then that I even became aware of anyone ice climbing at all. Before the internet, riding your bike around town, you thought the wildest stuff that went down was in the woods…
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Naming the Battle: A Love vs. Hate List for Writing
I read a good idea from an author on Writer’s Digest the other day. I get daily emails from them, which admittedly, I don’t usually read; there’s simply not enough time in the day. Sometimes I’ll take a minute to scan the latest email, look at the headlines, and nine times out of ten I…