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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Bring Out the Imp (and Middle Carter)
Winter has come to the White Mountains. After climbing the Imp Face and Middle Carter on Friday, it feels strange because it’s still clearly autumn at home. It’s as if I dipped myself in another world for a moment and am now home with the memories of a strange, magical trip. Not many hikers out…
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American Myopia
the eighties are gone the nineties are gone what are we so afraid of? we try so hard to box out what now is, from what was hoping rhetoric can change reality hoping lakes still freeze like they used to hoping fires don’t burn more than they did wishing away the rising heat and rising,…
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A Blustery Day on Mount Monadnock
A buddy and I spent Veterans Day making a loop hike of Kiasticuticus Peak (aka Bald Rock), Mount Monadnock, and Monte Rosa. It took us a little over four hours, maybe four and a half, thanks in large part to the blustery conditions at the summit of Monadnock. As we neared it, several people who…
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It’s Never Enough
I’d take a thousand years of it and a thousand more, if only to get one more slice of that round fruit where eyes melt into one beating heart, and a second sun rises from deep within. What magic is there in all the Universe that is greater than that? You want an arm? Take it.…