It's heating up in the lowland Sonoran desert, and becoming even more dangerous for those who cross the border. Even though the temperatures are brutal, people still cross in the summer. Because they have to. The multi-week journey this time of year is insanely dangerous, and many people will disappear in the Ajo corridor without … Continue reading No More Deaths Ajo May Monthlong Program

A few years ago, in 2015, I started to get sick. While I've struggled with digestive issues for about ten years (and been able to mostly manage them with diet), this was something new- one day on the CDT I woke up with a flu-like fatigue, akin to the lead blanket they put on you … Continue reading Let’s talk about chronic illness (with doge photos)

My gosh it's been a long time since I've written on here. I live in Tucson now and the heat is coming on; I live live here as in I have a very small house with furniture that I like from thriftstores and things on the walls that I picked out myself and houseplants that … Continue reading desert heat/small doge/blind faith

I have a new pack! This is very exciting. I love an ultra-tiny ultralight pack company. The kind of company that consists of two people max, and whose highly custom packs are made to order in like a basement somewhere. The kind of pack company that you don't even know exists unless you are deep into thru-hiking nerdery. I had … Continue reading Superior Wilderness Designs 35 Liter Pack

Since December I've been volunteering with No More Deaths, a volunteer-run humanitarian aid organization that aims to end death and suffering along the US/Mexico border. I've helped hike gallons of water into the Sonoran desert along known migrant trails, and I've also helped recover human remains. I wrote a piece about my experience so far … Continue reading Human remains recovery with No More Deaths along the US/Mexico border

Shit is really intense right now. I keep wanting to write something on this blog, but things are evolving so quickly that whenever I feel like I know what to say there is a new development, and I no longer know what to say or how I can even say it. We have, via electoral … Continue reading what’s going down and what we can do about it

It's fall. Another precious North American Summer lived/milked/frittered away. Currently I'm in Oregon, where I'll hunker down/work/work on my 2nd book/manifest my next projects until spring. As much as I like sleeping in my van beneath a hundred blankets in the perfectly dark and quiet forest, Winter is Coming (as they say) and soon it'll … Continue reading Stuff and things

After I get back from Alaska I drive out to meet Danfriend (who is hiking the CDT) in Pinedale, Wyoming, a two-stoplight cowboy town that boasts a $1 laundromat, a greasy spoon, plenty of sunshine and a Mountain Man Museum (mountain men being the first white dudes to trap beavers in the area, before the … Continue reading The Wind River High Route

Hai all! I'm doing a reading in Portland on Tuesday, August 9, at the Waypost, at 7pm, along with several other awesome women. Here's a link to the facebook event page-https://www.facebook.com/events/1731064887173784/?ti=cl Also! I'm on an episode of Real Talk Radio with Nicole Antionette! Nicole's podcast is so good. It's like Rich Roll, but with more actual … Continue reading I’m doing a reading in Portland, I’m on a podcast, and some blogs that I like

​ I get a text from my friend Tara, who lives in Alaska but is in the lower 48 for the week. “Are you on the side of the highway outside Anchorage right now, hitching?” I look up from my phone, at the vehicles speeding past. The wind blows my hat off of my head, … Continue reading No Sunrises/No Sunsets: A week in Gates of the Arctic National Park