Back in September, I was making my way via bicycle through North Cascades National Park. I was not quite a week in and had just emerged from my very first backpack-by-bike experience: after getting backcoutry permits and the requisite bear canister from the ranger station in Marblemount, I’d ridden my…
Indulge me in a story for a sec. For one of my jobs, I lead a youth conservation crew (think trailbuilding, planting, restoration work, and the like), and today was one of our “conservation education” days. That can mean a whole host of different things, but today it took…
Every winter, at least for the last several years, I’ve decided that this would be the season of winter sports — the season, that is, that I finally figure out the magical combination of gear rental and bus schedule to get my little car-free self out to that nearby…
I found this poem on someone’s frontyard poetry post a month or two ago, and was so struck by it that I memorized the title and author and looked it up again when I got home. Now, it seems more important than ever. I cried when I read it out…