It’s taken a bit to get back to these grand old climbing days. For a while I was hoping just to get to spend more time in the mountains again, but to be actually climbing them again? What a gift. It’s got me reflecting on the journey back to here. For those of you who…
Author: Matt Larson
With my first book, 4000s by 40, released this fall, I am fulfilling a lifelong dream of writing, and am excited to continue the journey of storytelling with future projects—so much so that the day after I published 4000s by 40, I began my next work.
Much of my inspiration comes from nature. My early love for the ocean, found on the South Shore of Massachusetts, has transitioned into a deep passion for the mountains here in New Hampshire, and I wanted to share that with my first book.
If you’d like to connect or have any inquiries, you can reach out to me at [email protected]. I’m also on Instagram and Facebook at wanderingmatt8. Happy reading!
A Sunday Break
I’m posting this on a Sunday, though I didn’t write it on a Sunday. I actually wrote it on Wednesday night while waiting up for my son to get home from working out at the gym. But I’m trying to be better about unplugging from work and writing, one day a week, to be fully…
You Were Meant to Feel it All
What did you think would happen?
You take one pill to fix that,
one to fix another,
and before you know it,
you don’t know one problem
from the other.
Unraveling all of that
doesn’t happen
at the flick of a switch.
You can’t trick the brain for so long
and actually believe
it’s not going to bitch.
The Wonderful Welch-Dickey Loop
One of my favorite climbs over the past year was the Welch-Dickey Loop. I’d been hearing about it for years, but the stars never aligned for me to try it until this past December. On New Year’s Eve to be specific. I was up in the north country with family for a post-holiday vacation, and…