The best ridgewalking imaginable, in one of the most remote places on earth. Waterfalls, epic passes, tiny tundra flowers. Previously, I’ve offered guided trips in Gates of the Arctic National Park, in the central Brooks Range- for 2026 I’m adding trips further west in the Brooks Range, to a less visited area. Why? Because it’s … Continue reading New for 2026: Guided Trips in the Western Brooks Range!

Applications are now open for my summer 2026 guided Gates of the Arctic trips, in Alaska's Brooks Range! While most of my trips have been just for women, trans and non-binary people, these trips are now open to everyone. Please read this whole page before applying. You can read reviews from past participants of my … Continue reading Gates of the Arctic 2026 Guided Trips!

Navigate remote canyons and sleep on warm sand under the moon with a group of other women, trans and non-binary people. Learn to make cross-country routes in caltopo! The trip of dreams! Are you a backpacker who wants to practice using caltopo for cross-country navigation (hiking off trail) in southern Utah, as well as get … Continue reading April 2026 Utah Guided Backpacking Trips!

Below you can find reviews from past participants of my beginner guided trips in Arizona and my intermediate guided trips in Utah and Alaska. Full details about my guided trips are here. Bonnie says: I had an incredible time on Carrot’s Utah trip! I came in with some long-distance backpacking experience, but I wanted to … Continue reading Reviews from past participants of my guided trips

Six days of eating, learning, and hiking in the beautiful low-elevation Sonoran desert! By popular demand, I'm hosting another series of guided beginner backpacking trips in Arizona in February of 2026. These trips are great for people with no or minimal outdoors experience, who want to build the confidence to plan and execute backpacking trips … Continue reading Arizona Beginner Guided Backpacking Trips 2026!

On Amazon, here- paperback and ebook editions are available, audiobook will be available at some point. If you pre-ordered via the kickstarter you’ll get your ebooks via email this week, paper books will arrive by the end of January. When I first started writing BETS four years ago, all I cared about was the plot. … Continue reading My new novel BETS is now available in the world!

For the last four years I've been working on a route in the Chugach (pronounced chew-gash) mountains outside Anchorage, Alaska. Here it is at last, for public consumption- maybe you want to hike it?! (All photos are from the route.) The Chugach Crowberry Traverse Pioneer Ridge Trailhead to Bird Ridge Trailhead/Knik River to Turnagain Arm, … Continue reading The Chugach Crowberry Traverse

hi Dear reader- I have not posted on this blog in a bloggy way in a long time. That's because I've been writing weekly for my newsletter here- you should definitely subscribe if you don't want to miss any of those. My newsletters have been about my life in Alaska, the daily wonders and horrors … Continue reading A million and one updates

since March- I write about existential despair, what I'm eating, moose hunting, app dating, the seasons changing in Alaska- kind of whatever. It's fun to write and I like it a lot! If you loved reading my posts here back in the day, when I would just sort of hold forth about whatever, you'll love … Continue reading I’ve been sending out a newsletter on substack

I have a newsletter! And I've actually been using it as of late, talking about the novel I just finished, my boundaries on the internet, the sparkly winter this year... just kind of whatever. You can subscribe here, if you want. ok bye!