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

13,000 words. Publication: Alta Journal, Summer 2025....
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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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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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Snow Monsters

A feature-length story about the importance of snowmaking to the ski industry.
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Outside Magazine Online: Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers

I sat to Palmer’s right, a motion-sickness bracelet on my left wrist, anti-nausea gum in my mouth, and a gallon-size ziplock at my feet.
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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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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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Snowmaking in the Time of Drought

A deep dive into the environmental externalities of snowmaking in the Tahoe Basin during the drought of 2012 - 2016.
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