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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The Right Light
Can you see it over there? Through the evergreen and billowed birch, past the branches where nuthatches perch? It’s there if you look. A thread. A casting of spirit. An embodiment that grows, the closer you draw near it. Do you see it shimmering through? One heavenly spot, where all that you wished, comes sliding…
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Peakfinding: Barrett and New Ipswich Mountain
I discovered new land this week! Okay, well, not new, but new to me. It felt like I was discovering new land, which I believe is the pinnacle of all mountain explorations, so that’s all that matters. Crunching my way up the Wapack Trail, this feeling was aided by the fact that I was all…
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Soundwaves of the Soul
They caught my eye today for the first time, like tree rings of a tall oak— well, if one was to wear them on its skin. Fingers out, reading the stories of the day, they curled up from the wrist, just beneath the light. I stretched them and started counting. Wondering and maybe hoping, they…
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Pulling in a New One at Artist’s Bluff
On Martin Luther King Day, known to be one of the most crowded days on the ski hill in New Hampshire, I opted to avoid the crowds and hit the hiking trail instead. I had never climbed Artist’s Bluff in the wintertime before, and I thought I’d take a stab at it, hoping it would…