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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A Mind Is Not Writ
I’ve seen the bright become dim, the dim become bright, and those who were wrong, one day get it right. So when you ask me, why try? Why bother at all? Why waste your breath— let the young men fall, it lights a once broken nerve idly spinning there, ready to ignite, bolstered by the…
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Concerns About the Growing Outdoor “Epic” Culture
Lately I’ve been reading about too many hikers and climbers needing rescues, getting lost, or worse. I’m also seeing a lot of new accounts on social media, whether they intend to or not, promoting more of an extreme relationship with nature that could easily lead others down a wrong path. To each their own—people can…
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Messages
You’re not the first one to really see it, you know. Nor the first to feel a meaning — a presence beyond yourself — when it slips through the bevy drifting before its face. You’re not the first to feel the transfer that comes between the wisps, and hits you up top before coursing the…
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A Post Gone Wrong
Years ago, I posted something on this site about how crazy ski parents are. Having recently discovered what it was like to be the parent of a kid on a ski team myself, I dropped what was supposed to be a humorous rebuke of our collective insanity. I titled it something like, “Crazier than Hockey…