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    In progress: Ice Axes to Axe Handles: The Life and Work of Gary Snyder

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    Outside Magazine Online: Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers

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    In progress: Ice Axes to Axe Handles: The Life and Work of Gary Snyder

    Alta Folio, Summer 2025, print and online: I Went Southwest: The Death and Afterlife of Lew Welch

    Outside Magazine Online: Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers

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    Outside Magazine Online: Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers

    The Telemarking Snow Farmer of Central Appalachia

    Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

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    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

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    Alta Folio, Summer 2025, print and online: I Went Southwest: The Death and Afterlife of Lew Welch

    Outside Magazine Online: Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers

    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

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    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

    Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

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    The Greening of Alex Honnold

    The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion

    Art of the Wild: Gessner, Stegner, and Abbey

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    Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

    The Alchemist: Ascent 2014 (climbing’s premier literary annual)

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Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

Outside Online: 2,400-word social justice/essay. Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious...
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Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

An essay exploring COVID-19, as it relates to both grief and outdoor adventure.
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Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

A look into how and why adventure athletes evolved into motivational speakers for big industry.
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Into the Heart of Patagonia’s Secret Archives

A feature-length look at how the creators of Patagonia's new museum of products from its past intend it to sustain the company well into the future.
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Figures on a Landscape

The story of how the mechanics of memory created four divergent origin myths of a famous climb in Joshua Tree National Park.
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Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

An inquiry into the psychological and biological causes of Michigan attorney Richard Jerome Levine's 2003 suicide in a Michigan trout stream.
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Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

Combining travel journalism and profile, this feature-length inquiry explores the Norwegian concept of friluftsliv, as seen through the eyes of professional skijorer Karoline Conradi Øksnevad.
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The Many Faces of Mt. Whitney

The Mount Whitney Zone, a designated wilderness, sees more visitors each year than its land managers can handle. This feature explains why.
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Ashes into the Shadow of Arrows

An essay about the influence of landscape on one's life...and death.
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The Majesty Polarity

An essay/profile teasing out the late Michael Strassman's views on sustainable adventure, or majesty, and ambitious, risk-taking mountaineering, or glory.
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