Writing
Some highlights.
Culture/Recent
The Perfect Astronaut Is Changing [The Atlantic]
Ode: The High Road to Taos, New Mexico [Wildsam Magazine]
Big Screen, Big Worms [Gawker]
Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’ [The New York Times]
The Glory of Otis, Fattest of the Fat Bears [Outside]
Monster Trip [Wildsam Magazine]
How Fitz and Becca Cahall Became a Podcasting Power Couple [Wildsam Magazine]
What Is Climate Fiction For? [Outside]
Changing the Face of the Outdoors [Uncommon Path]
Historic Las Vegas, New Mexico, Stands Strong Through the Pandemic [Preservation Magazine]
King Arthur Flour’s Baking Hotline Has Never Been Busier — and the Questions Are Getting Personal [Eater]
The Last Shovel Racers [High Country News]
[See all of my culture writing as a columnist for Outside here.]
Profiles
How Earyn McGee Sent the Internet Searching for Lizards [Outside Magazine]
Pattie Gonia Is Shaking Up the Adventure World [Outside Magazine]
Walk Therapy [Outside Magazine]
The Anti-Influencer Who Wants You to Travel Ethically [Outside]
The Trailblazers: Morgan Dixon & Vanessa Garrison [Outside Magazine]
Jane Kim Is Reviving the Art of the Museum Diorama [Outside]
The Defender: Tara Houska [Outside Magazine]
Personal Essays
How to Be a Beginner (and Get Over Your Ego) [Outside]
On Packing and Hermit Crabs [Outside]
How to Be a Beginner (and Get Over Your Ego) [Outside]
On Skiing and Puking [5280]
Notes on a Tortured Relationship with Flannel [Outside]
Media
‘Something New Under the Sun’ Is a Climate-Change Mystery We Couldn’t Put Down [Outside]
Jeff VanderMeer’s Weird, Wondrous Worlds [LitHub]
Everything Ever Said About Alex Honnold’s Hands [Outside]
Jessica Hernandez on Why Western Environmentalism Won’t Save Us [Audubon Magazine]
Master Falconer Rodney Stotts Extols the ‘Healing Power of Wildlife’ [Audubon Magazine]
Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’ Is All About Reconnecting with Nature [Outside]
The Incarcerated Women Risking Their Lives to Fight Wildfires [Outside]
When Corporate Activism Has a Dark Side [Outside]
This Novel Reclaims the Western Expansion Myth [Outside]
‘Site Fidelity’ Explores Why We Fight for the Places We Love [Outside]
A New Book Explores the Fascinating History of Camping [Outside]
What Gretel Ehrlich Gets Wrong About Climate Change [Outside]
Travel Books
Contributing Editor, Wildsam’s Santa Fe City Guide
Contributing Editor, Wildsam’s Grand Canyon Field Guide
Space/Science/Wellness
The Mystery Behind the Blue Marble Photo [Outside]
NASA's Secret Art Studio [The Guardian]
Welcome to the Quietest Square Inch in the U.S. [Outside]
Why I Traded Sleeping in for Morning Cuddles with My Dog [Outside Magazine]
Your Ideal Therapist May Not Be Human [Outside Magazine]
Why Vitamins Are (Almost Always) a Waste of Money [GQ]
What Are Some Alternatives to Talk Therapy? [GQ]
Why Staring at Screens Makes Your Eyes Ache—and What to Do About It [GQ]
Science Says Camp Sleep Is Good for You [Outside Magazine]
Etc.
Don’t Care About Sexual Harassment? Don’t Read Outside. [Outside]