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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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— a quaking in the heavens. Too far to pin the source, and yet I feared the levins. Wondering from where the change may come,I waited for the breeze, wishing for some sunlightto start knocking through the trees. But in faith, there was no point,hoping…
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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…