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Reading “White Mountains State”

Posted on November 6, 2025November 18, 2025

I know I say I don’t really do book reviews, but here I am, finding myself reporting on another one only a week or so after reviewing The Beauty of Ordinary Things. But I can’t help myself. If there’s a book I like—especially if it shines a light on the mountains of New Hampshire like…

Country Bookseller

Lessons From AMC Awards, Signings, and More

Posted on May 31, 2025July 15, 2025

I ended my spring “book tour” of 4000s by 40 last weekend, with a book signing at The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro, NH. If you haven’t been, it’s a great bookstore with a terrific owner. Three other local authors joined the signing…

4000s by 40

Why 4000s by 40?

Posted on April 26, 2025June 6, 2025

So why 4000s by 40? Why the need for this book? Well, a few years back—okay, a while back—before I turned 40, I was starting to have all those anxious thoughts we get as we approach that milestone year, wondering what the second half of my life would look like. I started asking myself if…

Mount Isolation

The Last Twenty Feet: Mount Isolation

“It was the first of November, and I was regretting having missed my chance to summit the last time I went up the Glen Boulder Trail. It was hard enough in the summertime, when the ground was clear, but today there was already a surprising amount of snow clogging up the trail.“– from 4000s by…

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Love the mountains? 4000s by 40 is a story of missteps, hard-earned lessons, and the mountains that shape us.
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