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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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…
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Butt-Sliding on Cherry Mountain (aka Owlshead)
The first hour took an hour. The second hour took two. And the third hour took about twenty minutes. At least, that’s how it felt going up and down Cherry Mountain on Saturday. After a solid holiday week of skiing and sledding with a ton of family and friends, I finished vacation off with “a…