Written and visual dispatches from our least understood, least protected, and largely unknown public lands managed by the BLM. Part guidebook, inspiration, and travelogue.
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BONUS: National Monument Reductions
Gooooood morning from New York City.
I’m here for another few weeks with my family while my oldest daughter attends a summer arts conservatory at the college she’s hoping to attend next fall. I assumed that by leaving the West behind, we’d...
Dispatch #52 - My Daughter's First Backpacking Trip, Part 2
Last week, in part 1, I left off here:
At 7:38 a.m. the next morning, we shouldered our packs and walked toward the trailhead. The trail to Patterson Lake climbed six miles and 2,460 vertical feet. We tightened our pack straps, fist bum...
Dispatch #51 - My Daughter's First Backpacking Trip, Part 1
Several months back, my 11-year-old daughter Vivian asked if we could go on her first real backpacking trip together.
After resisting the urge to weep and then run outside and hoot and holler and howl at the moon in gratitude — DREAMS COM...
Dispatch #50 - Books, books, books
My 2026 reading so far, plus a few lists of my all-time favorite books.
Something a little different this week. Fifty dispatches feels like a good excuse to spend an entire newsletter talking about books.
Dispatch #49 - Soldier Meadows Road, Nevada
Wandered across the Great Basin last week. On breathing room, darkness, and the spaces between things.
I roamed around northern Nevada last week, searching for the only self-sustaining lake population of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (more on t...
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Writer, photographer, walker, and camping junkie. Lover of dusty roads, strong coffee, and BLM land. The Enduring Wild is out now, wherever books are sold.
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