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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Triggered by Chiggers
Every year I seem to make a new discovery in the field of personal health disasters. I was there at ground zero during the 2018 Browntail Moth epidemic of Harpswell, Maine, when my entire body became engulfed with invisible caterpillar barbs that embedded themselves in my skin. Fun. I was also the first known man…
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Father Factchecking
I know we just had Mother’s Day and we’ve got a month before we’re supposed to care about dad, but man oh man, can we talk for just a second about the cruel irony of being a modern dad? In particular, being a Gen X modern dad, who was raised to believe everything his father…
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Pack Attack: A Mother’s Day Hike Up Pack Monadnock
I felt like I owed Pack Monadnock a visit before she started getting jealous. I’ve been visiting all of her little siblings this year and though Pack was the first member of the Wapack family I ever visited, it’s been a little while since I tread her trails. With the rest of my family occupied…
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You Could
You could do it all, I suppose, see all there is to see, paddle every river, keep good company. You could study every facet of Salvadore’s mad art, read up on the royals, learn them all by heart. You could climb up every mountain, at least the ones you know, and run every road race…