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  • The Magical Neve Traverse in BC’s Coast Mountains

    The Neve Traverse is a 26-mile ski tour across several glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park of British Columbia's Coast Mountains. From tracing my fingers across a map of this stretch of glaciated ...

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    The Magical Neve Traverse in BC’s Coast Mountains
  • Mount Hood via the Mazama Chute

    I’ve been dreaming of climbing Mount Hood since gazing at this angular, gorgeous peak from across the stateline on Mount Adams. The shape of it struck me – so distinct from the cone mountain tops of ...

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    Mount Hood via the Mazama Chute
  • Mount Baker Backcountry on a Bluebird February Day

    A magic bluebird pow day in Mount Baker's backcountry. Beta & Maps See Gaia Maps for more detail here. ...

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    Mount Baker Backcountry on a Bluebird February Day
  • Mount Saint Helens via the Worm Flows

    The weather forecast for the weekend was clear, cold, and sunny. Living in the coastal mountains within a near-constant precipitating cloud in winter time, I was surprised and charmed. And it ...

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    Mount Saint Helens via the Worm Flows

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April 10, 2025

The Magical Neve Traverse in BC’s Coast Mountains

The Neve Traverse is a 26-mile ski tour across several glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park of British Columbia’s Coast Mountains. From tracing my fingers across a map of this stretch…

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February 28, 2025

Mount Hood via the Mazama Chute

I’ve been dreaming of climbing Mount Hood since gazing at this angular, gorgeous peak from across the stateline on Mount Adams. The shape of it struck me – so distinct…

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February 10, 2025

Mount Baker Backcountry on a Bluebird February Day

A magic bluebird pow day in Mount Baker’s backcountry. Beta & Maps See Gaia Maps for more detail here.

Climb on ridge crest at sunrise

January 22, 2025

Mount Saint Helens via the Worm Flows

The weather forecast for the weekend was clear, cold, and sunny. Living in the coastal mountains within a near-constant precipitating cloud in winter time, I was surprised and charmed. And…

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January 15, 2025

Cascade Mountaineering Trips Captured on Film

Summer 2024 in the Cascades captured with Porta 400 film on my Canon Sure Shot.

January 6, 2025

Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains on Film

Film from a 7-day traverse of Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains. All shot on a disposable 800 ISO Kodak camera.

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a love letter for montana 💌 feeling a immense a love letter for montana 💌

feeling a immense calling for home lately — the light on the mountains, the lonesome country stretching between one gas-station-and-a-bar town to another, the two finger greetings from behind steering wheels as you pass on dusty dirt roads, the camaraderie between people who know what it means to sacrifice for this place — to withstand the choking months of fire season and the -20 degree winter stretches — all to live here, where a fresh blanket of snow brings an insulated quiet like no other and where when you go to the mountains you find yourself truly and beautifully alone. 

i’ve been away from montana for a bit, indulging in the human impulse of trying on a new place and a new life for size. but its almost comical how much montana, this place, grasps me. the pull is magnetic, primal. when i drive over the mountain pass into the folds of my familiar valley, i feel all the swirling silt settle in my stomach and something ineffable fall into place. i could travel to the far edges of this strange and magnificent world (and i hope to) but one thing will always remain true — there’s nowhere quite like montana. 

i’ll be home soon. 🤍
Closed the chapter of my 27th year yesterday. Ea Closed the chapter of my 27th year yesterday. 

Each rotation on this planet awes me, humbles me, and brings me to my knees with gratitude for the gift of existence and for our achingly beautiful home. This year fundamentally rearranged me. I am glad for it. 

Stepping into 28 with a soft heart and open palms.
counting down the days till i get to marry my swee counting down the days till i get to marry my sweetheart !! ❣️ 

so much gratitude to @jazzerraephotos for romping around in a thunderstorm with us to capture these photographs
some moments from last weekend glacier touring in some moments from last weekend glacier touring in beautiful BC’s coast mountains 

#skicanada #skitouring
got a lil weepy watching this fox 🥲 in the wor got a lil weepy watching this fox 🥲

in the words of the wise @gendersauce, death will come when it comes, for now you get to make the little choices, the tiny ones, the heartbreaking ones, you get to choose the color of your socks 🌀
life is too good to be true sometimes !! #skitour life is too good to be true sometimes !!

#skitouring #sleepoutside #skicanada
always feel most beautiful + most alive after a fe always feel most beautiful + most alive after a few days of sleeping outside 🤍
pinch me !! can’t believe i got to spend a mag pinch me !! 

can’t believe i got to spend a magical few days in this glacial paradise of british columbia’s coast mountains 🥹

from tracing my finger across a map of this stretch of glaciated terrain in 2023 to watching the weather everyday for the past few months, this trip has been a long time in the making and i am still on cloud nine that it all came together, even if at the sacrifice of a few of my toenails and an unfortunate amount of blisters. catch me wearing cushy socks and loose sandals for the foreseeable future. it was so worth it!!

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