Navigate remote canyons, scramble on slickrock and hike in streams in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in southern Utah (in the part of the monument currently under threat by the Trump admin). Learn to make a cross-country route in caltopo. Follow use trails and sleep on warm sand under the moon. Leave feeling confident enough … Continue reading April 2027 Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Guided Backpacking Trips!

Three eight-day guided backpacking trips in Gates of the Arctic National Park. One for women, trans and non-binary people, and two that are open to everyone. Please read this whole page before applying! You can read reviews from past participants of my guided trips here. Info about my other 2027 guided trips is here. These … Continue reading Gates of the Arctic 2027 Guided Trips

The best ridgewalking imaginable, in one of the most remote places on earth. Waterfalls, epic passes, tiny tundra flowers. Hundreds of caribou trails but not a single human trail. Accessible only by bush plane. This is the western end of Alaska's Brooks Range, and I'm offering two nine-day guided backpacking trips there in 2027- one … Continue reading Western Brooks Range 2027 Guided Trips!

Below are reviews from past participants of my guided trips in Alaska, Utah and Arizona. Full details about my guided trips are here. Sandy says: I hiked the Brooks Range with Carrot, and it was life changing. I had thruhiked the AT and done backcountry hiking in the Arizona sky islands with NOLS so felt … Continue reading Reviews from past participants of my guided trips

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!

All photos are from the route The Chugach Crowberry Traverse Pioneer Ridge Trailhead to Bird Ridge Trailhead/Knik River to Turnagain Arm, Chugach Mountains, Alaska 77 Miles 29,925 feet of elevation gain 388 feet of elevation change per mile The map for this route is here. . Endless alpine tundra! Trails built by sheep! Ridgewalking for … 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!

Long distance hiking zines #1, #2 and #5 are now available as beautiful full-color zines with the photos fully integrated! You can read about my walks across Utah, Death Valley, the Wind River range and, most recently, Arizona, while looking at dozens of photos! Each zine contains all the blog posts from the trip, edited. … Continue reading Zines for sale!