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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Go Where Others Don’t
Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken has been heralded and used as motivation for independent endeavors for over one hundred years now. Its last three lines are poetry legend: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
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Bears, Hunters, Hornets, Oh My!
It’s been an unusually active bear season this year, so when I arrived at the Spring Road Trailhead for Pond Parish today—a trail I’ve probably hiked over a hundred times—I had a brief thought that maybe today is the day I run into a bear. Mind you, I’ve never seen one out there, but I…
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Sun and Thunder
I was high up on the trail when I heard it. An earthquake in the heavens. Too far away to pin the source, still fearful of the levins. Wondering which way the change, I waited for the breeze, while hoping for some daylight embedded in the trees. But it was taking too longto see if…
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Stop Waiting and Go
Sometimes, for the big stuff, we wait too long. We wait for “the right time,” but it never comes. Or we wait for others to be able to join us on that special trip, but the calendars never align. Or they do eventually, but years after you wanted to go. Similarly, for us climbers, we…