Drop Your Tools

What are you still holding on to?

The Trail Was Very Defined, and Then It Wasn't

Two groups made the same wrong turn on the same night. Only one of them stopped in time.

I Hadn't Been Back in 20 Years

A rodeo bench, my grandpa, and everything I'd never asked.

The Rope on my Desk

For fifteen years it's been within reach, because I keep forgetting what it knows.

The Rock That Looked Like Bigfoot

We found Bigfoot across the lake. It was a rock.

Above the Treeline, There's Only One of You

On the three operating systems we run, the gap between them, and what the wilderness does to that gap.

The Wilderness Gap (or, the day my phone took the hit)

What a hard crash on a familiar trail taught me about leading

41 Boys, 11 Leaders, and a Few Things I Got WrongNew post

What four days in Moab taught me about letting go

The Things They Left Me

What three grandparents taught me about what actually lasts.

What Will Be Etched on Your Stone?

On legacy, intentional fatherhood, and the question the petroglyphs keep asking.

The Song I Don't Pick

Or, why I haven't taken a singing lesson in thirty years.

Strike Anywhere

A campfire, nine boys, and what they know that we've forgotten

The Fire That Asked the Real Question

What seven men around a campfire taught me about the real foundation of fatherhood.

The Man Who Had Nothing Was Home by 4.