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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Steps: A Collection of Haikus
This small collection of haikus, inspired by nature, captures some beautiful moments I experienced “out there.” Haiku, for me, is a quick meditation on the time and place you’re in, and is about feeling present—remarkably so—in that one tiny sliver of the space-time continuum.
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On Georgiana Falls
This morning I went, I thought somewhere new, hunting a waterfall, gifting a view, but when I arrived and opened the door I knew I’d already been there before. How could I have forgotten such a place? What spot in my mind needed it erased? Or was it because in the years before, my mind…
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New Trails and a Happy Return to Winter Hiking
It’s been a while since I needed to don spikes. I’m not sure exactly how long, but it feels like years. Well, for hiking anyway. Sometimes I’ve needed them to tread up a ski hill to watch my daughter race, but other than that, I haven’t had much cause. A series of health setbacks kept…
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Way Up There
Way up there, saddled in the breeze, nestled where most will never see, lies a lake, a christening pool, a gift from Heaven, seems to me. To protect it, we leave it be, but I confess, a part believes, that one little dip in this jewel could turn an old soul new, and set a…